November 2007
Beginner
190 pages
8h 3m
English
Opening the door to digital arts and crafts.

The projects in MAKE encourage us to transcend our default role as passive consumers. Armed with screwdrivers and soldering irons, we boldly go into basement workshops, creating new gadgets or ripping open old ones, sometimes achieving mixed results but always enjoying ourselves.
Earlier this year, it occurred to me that the magazine could extend its interests from the physical world into an area that I think of as “digital arts and crafts”: photographs, videos, music, text, computer code, and animations. The snag is that the software involved is increasingly diverse and complex. ...