Get ready for the coolest issue of MAKE. Our special kids issue is filled with exciting and fun projects to make your weekend or science fair a blast. Hydrogen rockets, catapults, electric animals, chemical batteries, flying bird automatons, and more await you in the pages of MAKE: Volume 20

MAKE continues to be a leader in the tech DIY movement due to its uncanny instinct to engage the curiosity, vitality, and passion of the growing community of Makers -- DIY enthusiasts, hobbyist engineers/designers, and others who like to tweak, disassemble, recreate, and invent cool new uses...

Danger Danger The very word puts us on notice. As it is designed to do. Don't touch that. Peril ahead. Proceed with caution. But the threat of danger can also be a trap, holding us back from experiencing many wonders of the world, trying new things, going where no one has gone before.

In MAKE Volume 35, we confront danger within the world of making, and how to be smarter about risk. We examine safe practices for makers, and we look at the illusion of danger vs. real danger, how to use common sense, and how to educate yourself to work more safely and productively.

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Why are so many kids (and adults) like you bored by science? Simple: you ve had no real contact with it. You might read about incredibly expensive scientific projects, but your hands-on experience is probably limited to the same tired experiments like baking soda and vinegar "volcanoes." Not any longer. Make Magazine s "Punk Science" issue (volume 31) shows you how you can become a real, cutting-edge amateur scientist.

Find out how high school and college students can get an introduction to modern biology research through affordable biotech labs provided by Otyp, a small...

Forget duct tape and baling wire -- now makers can design and manufacture things as beautiful as Apple and as slick as Dyson and Audi. We'll show you how to conceive and visualize great-looking projects with our speed course in industrial design -- then build them with tools like vacuum forming and laser cutting, and finish them with cases and interfaces that are artful, ergonomic, and irresistible.

Plus you'll get 23 great DIY projects like the Nellie Bly Smoker, the Awesome Button, the World Control Panel, LED Little Big Lamp, Laminar-Flow Water Fountain, and Keyless Lock Box, and...

Make Volume 34 takes to the sky, land, and the sea with projects and articles about underwater robots, incredible kites, and easy-to-make robots that are packed with personality. You'll also find features on an ancient and unusual maker material, and an excerpt from Encyclopedia of Electronic Components, a follow-up title to Charles Platt's best-selling book Make: Electronics.You'll get great projects like CoffeeBots (Arduino-controlled coffee can robots), GlueMotor (control your own robots with an iPhone app), AudioBooks (amplified speakers that look like hardbound books), and KAPstan (a...

Boards, Boards, Boards It's all about the boards that are rocking the Maker world. We're in a gold rush of controllers and mini-computers, putting raw power into your hands and giving you the ability to express whatever your imagination can suggest. What was once the domain of giant electronics manufacturers only a few years ago can now be shipped to you overnight to play with, and help you develop your own amazing projects.

Do your think Arduino is il migliore? Do you salivate for a piece of Raspberry Pi? Does your tail wag at the idea of a BeagleBone? In MAKE Volume 36,...