CONTRIBUTORS
Shannon Wheeler (Bringing Makey the Robot to Life) is the Eisner Award–winning creator of the comic and opera Too Much Coffee Man. Wheeler has contributed to a variety of publications including The New Yorker and The Onion. He currently lives in Portland, Ore. with his cats, chickens, bees, girlfriend, and children. He just built a couple rooms in his basement and he’s about to build a chicken coop and run. Wheeler has multiple books that are pretty easy to find. His weekly comic strip is published in various alternative weeklies and online at tmcm.com.
Ian Gonsher (Coffee Shop Construction Toy) is an artist and designer living in Providence, R.I., where he teaches in the School of Engineering at Brown University. In his classes, students explore various strategies for creative thinking and making. He is particularly interested in how creative processes play out across disciplines and in the development of strategies for recognizing and generating abundant value through exploratory play. This often involves working on collaborative projects with students, some of which can be seen at browncreativemind.com.
Nick Parks (MAKE engineering intern) is a college student studying mechanical engineering. He likes to build, destroy, and build things again. When he isn’t making things, you can find him driving remote-controlled vehicles or riding his handmade longboard down the steep and adventurous hills of Sebastopol. Parks’ life goal is to eventually start his own company to create products that will help people to do their best to conserve resources and preserve the great features of the planet.
Craig Newswanger (The Six-Pack Tesla Coil) of Austin, Texas, is a holographer, inventor, artist, and maker. Craig’s varied interests include: optics, electronics, photography, holography, astronomy, computer music, computer graphics, mechanics, and the history of science. He has dreamed of building a workshop where he could build stuff like telescopes, Tesla coils, kites, and anything else he can think of. He really likes to build things and make them work! He works for Zebra Imaging, builds things at the Resonance Studio Workshop, and is also a behind-the-scenes member of ArcAttack.
Chris Dodsworth (Raygun Vector Weapon) is a joinery manufacturer from Lincolnshire, in the U.K., who started designing analog audio circuits back in 2009 under the name Symetricolour. Inspired by a love of synth equipment but wanting to create more experimental sounds, he created electronic designs and kits of small lo-fi devices that produced everything from soothing beeps to raging torrents of noise. More recently he has been using these devices, such as the Noise Hero and the Beep Poet 2, while playing keyboards in the band Robots Found Errors, gigging around Lincolnshire.
Shane Deruise (Pyro) was born in North Carolina and grew up next to the sea. The eldest of two children, he displayed no interest in becoming a fisherman, and after high school he decided to travel the country, not with an amazing circus, but as a professional wrestler. Deruise loves to shoot bands, and portraits of people who have never been in magazines. He dreams of traveling the world with his beautiful wife and amazing son, Bresson, who is the self-proclaimed “King of the Number 2.” He now looks forward to fishing being the ideal life.