Part 3

Part III: Science and Electronics

 

Cy Tymony has contributed more articles to Make: magazine’s 1+2+3 feature than any other writer. More than a dozen published books, with titles like Sneaky Uses for Everyday Things, attest to Cy’s restless imagination and boundless creativity. His 10 projects in this section range from switches and batteries made of everyday things to a clever hack for turning an ordinary AM/FM radio into an aircraft band receiver.

Mark Frauenfelder makes an ingenious little “bot” with a motor and a mint tin in his “Vibrobot” project. For more robot fun, check out Steve Hoefer’s “Dizzy Robot.” A former Iowa farm boy who ...

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