MAKE: Technology on Your Time

Make: Technology on Your Time is a hybrid of a magazine and a book. It's a magazine, but not a typical one.

If you like to tweak, disassemble, re-create, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love MAKE the new quarterly publication for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer. Every issue is packed with projects to help you make the most of all the technology in your life. Everything from home entertainment systems, to laptops, to robots is fair game. If there's a way to hack it, tweak it, bend it, or remix it, you will find out about it in MAKE.

This isn't another gadget magazine. MAKE focuses on cool things you can do to make technology work the way you want it to. The publication is inspired by the bestselling Hacks series of books but with a twist.

Whether you're a geek or hacker who delights in creating new uses for technology, or a Saturday afternoon tinkerer who loves to get his hands dirty, you'll keep every issue of MAKE on your bookshelf for years to come. Each issue includes 224 pages packed with tips and tricks, including:

* How to turn a VCR into a pet feeding robot
* How to make a see-through potato cannon
* Extreme bot builders at home
* How to decipher the magnetic stripe on your credit card to find out what your credit card company really knows about you
* How to build a light-seeking robot from an old mouse

Every quarter, MAKE features a unique set of innovative ideas and creations for a variety of new technologies, including mobile devices, in-car computers, web services, digital media, wireless and home networking, and computer hardware.

The magazine has a homemade yet professional feel. The photos give the impression they're taken by average people and not photographers, but they're good quality and complement the articles. Even if you don't have time to create things, you will find it an engrossing read thanks to the personable writing and easy to follow instructions.