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Rotary
Cell
Phone
Makers Step
Up to Combat
Covid-19
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Community PPE Guide
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Self-Suciency:
Homeschooling
Homesteading
Sourcing Materials
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Free and Easy
Webcasting
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Build a 20-Second
Musical Hand Soap
Dispenser
5 Family Maker
Camp Projects to
Save Your Sanity
PROJECTS:
Backyard Wind Turbine
Upcycling Old PCs
Mini Jacob’s Ladder
Sequin Rewrite Clock
DIY Heroes
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I M A G I N E A C L A S S R O O M Y O U C A N J O I N
F R O M A N Y W H E R E I N T H E W O R L D …
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Family
MAKING
LEARNING
teaching
EXPLORING
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COMBATING COVID-19
Makers: The Countermeasures for
Covid-19 28
Self-organizing efforts and a widely distributed
infrastructure provided for a unique civic response
from makers to fight Covid-19. Here are the groups,
people, and designs that are saving lives.
Homeschool How-To 46
A quick primer for families now educating their kids
at home.
Community Broadcast Services 50
Watch and create your own virtual classes and
webinars with these tech tools.
Homesteading Is the New Normal 54
Brush up on your self-sufficiency skills to overcome
staple shortages.
Pump Up the Jams 56
Zap coronavirus with the Scrubber, a Spotify-playing,
20-second hand-wash timer.
Low Fidelity Prototyping Cart 60
Create a collection of common materials to help
you keep on making while sheltered in place.
COLUMNS
Reader Input 06
Notes from readers like you.
Welcome: Everything’s Changed 08
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected us all, and
made us rethink this issue right before our deadline.
Made on Earth 10
Backyard builds from around the globe.
FEATURES
New Power Nation 16
How we’ll remake America’s infrastructure to electrify
everything. Part 3 of the Fix Our Planet series.
Native Optimization 22
The Diné Maker Nation Maker Faire highlighted
the high-tech future of the Navajo Nation.
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ON THE COVER:
Physiotherapist Marine Sacco wears a snorkel mask
modified with a 3D printed adapter to fit an air filter,
while working in a Covid unit of a Belgian hospital.
Credits: Albert De Beir–VUB/Brubotics, Adobe
Stock–korkeng (background), and Mike Senese (cell
phone).
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FAMILY MAKER CAMP
Cooped Up With the Kids 62
Keep everyone engaged, entertained, and educated
with Family Maker Camp, live now!
World Wide Boomerang 64
This easy-to-build flyer comes back, indoors and out.
Easy Family Projects to Do at Home 68
A collection of past Make: projects you can probably
make with stuff already lying around the house.
PROJECTS
Digital Revolution 72
Take a break from your touchscreen and dial up your
friends the traditional way on this rotary cell phone.
My Monkey Companion Bot 78
Build a fun robot monkey you can customize, wear
with you on adventures, or use as an avatar.
Backyard Wind Power 84
Make a simple generator that powers your small
projects from the breeze
.
Mini Jacob’s Ladder 90
This pocket-sized ladder is easy to make for just
$20. You’ll be rewarded with a real high-voltage
eye-catcher.
Sequino! 96
How one maker made a unique “rewrite” clock
with Arduino, CNC, and sequins.
Comprehending Capacitors 100
A capacitor stores electricity, as you will see in this
experiment from our book, Easy Electronics.
Pick and Pull PC Projects 104
Three fun projects you can build with salvaged
computer parts.
Toy Inventor’s Notebook:
Don’t Drop Your Bot! 110
High-tech fabrication meets low-tech play action.
1+2+3: Mini Ground Eect Vehicles 112
Experiment with the world’s lowest-flying aircraft.
SKILL BUILDER
Green Grain Glazes 114
Study up on quality woodworking finishes that won’t
destroy the world.
MIDI for Makers 118
The 38-year-old standard for musical instrument
interfacing is still a useful tool for tunes and art alike.
TOOLBOX
Toolbox 122
Gear up with the latest tools and kits for makers.
POPCORN
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Adobe Stock – Feydzhet Shabanov and alexxndr, MakerMask.org, Joe Hoddinott @phojoegraphy, Keith Hammond, Taylor Tabb, Katie Rosa Marchese, Ulrich Schmerold, Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi
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