Proto

Profiles of corporate makers who have managed to parlay their hacker sensibility into a career.

Articles in this series:

Timothy and the Chocolate Factory from MAKE: 14: Optics
How a space shuttle technologist and the founder of Wired magazine hacked together a homebrew chocolate lab. by David Pescovitz

Making Magic from MAKE: 13: Magic
The magician's magician, illusion designer John Gaughan is the man behind the curtain. by David Pescovitz

Art and Culture from MAKE: 12: Upload
Philip Ross' art crosses the boundaries of technology and biology. by John Alderman

Power Tripping from MAKE: 11: Alt Vehicles
High-voltage engineer Greg Leyh builds the largest Tesla coils in the world. by David Pescovitz

Burn to Learn from MAKE: 10: Home Electronics
The Crucible industrial arts school's community of practice. by David Pescovitz

Turn On, Tune In, Bliss Out from MAKE: 09: Fringe
Dr. James Hardt hopes his DIY neurofeedback tech will fire up the global brain. by David Pescovitz

Garage Biotech from MAKE: 07: Backyard Biology
For a safer world, Drew Endy wants everyone to engineer life from the ground up. by Bob Parks

Space Cases from MAKE: 06: Robots
The balloon men at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. by David Pescovitz

C.S. and the City from MAKE: 05: Science, Weather, and Outdoors
Intel researcher Eric Paulos makes things that give their owners a new way of understanding their daily lives. by David Pescovitz

Proto: Where Bits Meet Flesh from MAKE: 04: Music and Kits for the Holidays
IBM's Thomas Zimmerman and the "thrill of the make." by David Pescovitz

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