Can't wait for Make:

Dale Dougherty and Mark Frauenfelder introduced their new magazine project at this year's OSCON: Make:

It is going to be a celebration of tinkering, of using everyday objects and technology to create something new useful and unique.

One of the principles I try to live by is: The more I and my whole body is actively part of something the higher I value it as an activity. I'd rather make music, than listen to it, I'd rather bike Mt. Tam than watching the Tour de France. One of the reasons I never bothered to buy a TV, just too passive.

Make: magazine is going to spark new ideas for tinkering and using technology or ordinary things in a new way. Having built my own workbench in my garage, although it hasn't been used a lot lately, I can't wait for Make: to come out.

Danny O'Brien's notes of their OSCON presentation:

A move from mass-manufacturing to individual manufacturing. Creating one-offs at home, using tech Dale's seen at MIT Media lab. Current magazines are "cargo magazines" just telling you where to buy, not how to manufacture.

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So example spread they're showing is of Kite Camera photography. Feature is a low-cost, $10 camera with a silly putty timer. Ebay as a parts supplier for everyone. (Looks good, although in the cutthroat British magazine industry, I can already hear Future and Dennis leaping like jackals on these scraps and sending their first Make rip-off to print before this talk even finishes. "Make Format"? "Slaphappy Magazine" "Dig". Yeah, "Digger". With a soft-porn centerfold section called "The Dirty Digger") [Read the rest]