ISBN10: 0596101880, ISBN13: 9780596101886, [publisher: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol] Softcover Paperback. "Make" magazine, launched in February 2005 as the first magazine devoted to Tech DIY projects, hardware hacks and D.I.Y. inspiration, has been hailed as "a how-to guide for the opposable thumb set" and "Popular Mechanics for the modern age." Itching to build a cockroach-controlled robot, a portable satellite radio or your very own backyard monorail? Hankering to hack a game boy or your circadian rhythms? Rather read about people who fashion laptop bags from recycled wetsuits and build shopping cart go-karts? Make is required reading. Now, following on the heels of "Make's" wildly popular inaugural issues, O'Reilly offers "Makers", a beautiful hardbound book celebrating creativity, resourcefulness and the D.I.Y. spirit. Author Bob Parks profiles 100 people and their homebrew projects - people who make ingenious things in their backyards, basements and garages with a lot of imagination and a little applied skill. "Makers" features technologies old and new used in service of the serious and the amusing, the practical and the outrageous. The makers profiled are driven by a combination of curiosity, passion and plain old stick-to-itiveness to create the unique and astonishing.Most are simply hobbyists who'll never gain notoriety for their work, but that's not what motivates them to ...