Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 15

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BY DALE DOUGHERTY

Sharing the Adventure

In my conversations with makers, we often talk about our favorite books. Frequently it’s an out-of-print book, such as How to Make and Fly Paper Airplanes by retired Navy Capt. Ralph S. Barnaby, published in 1968. Saul Griffith told me about Barnaby recently and said that his was the very best book on aerodynamics. Saul’s office, incidentally, is located in the control tower overlooking a defunct Navy airbase, where he is building high-tech kites.

At O’Reilly’s FOO Camp this year, I went to a session titled “Beekeeping, Old Houses, and the Art of Observation.” I started keeping two hives of bees this spring. Brian Fitzpatrick, an engineer with Google in Chicago, started the session by introducing ...