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MAKE Magazine In This Issue... Dumponaut, a dumpster home 3-wheeled bike slash workbench? Fun with matches Flash your computer BIOS with Openbiosprog-spi SchoolTool connects schools More Recent Articles Dumponaut, a dumpster home The Dumponaut, an art project envisioning a home made out of a dumpster. There are countless external controls on our existence, and a big one is the trade of capital for goods. The loophole lives in dumpsters: where there is surplus, there is an exit from the system. but it isn't a true exit - it's a temporary glimpse through a porthole of autonomy if you will. in reality, dumpster diving is still a form of dependence. The Dumponaut (aka Lil' Takeover) is a kind of ode to that dialogue. Yes, I could live in this thing, yes it cost me no more than $50 dollars to make, but i couldn't have possibly created the materials i'm building with - i have neither the skill, nor the resources, nor the money, to do so. This begs the question: if I were to eliminate the materials i found in the dumpster, what would I do? Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Culture jamming | Digg this!   • Email to a friend • • 3-wheeled bike slash workbench? Make: Online reader skatronix saw the modded bikes I posted earlier and left a comment describing his own whip: me and my dear friend olegtron decided to build a three wheeler that contains all sorts of electric equipment for making electronics on-road. It contains a 12V car battery( +solar panels) to run all electronics like car stereo, soldering stations, mobile VJing, etc... sorry that text is in finnish :) maybe to make it as in english too. On our blog one can find step-by-step instructions on making the three-wheeler and wiring for car battery. Pretty sweet! Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Bicycles | Digg this!   • Email to a friend • • Fun with matches Fun With Matches: Science And Mechanics Apr, 1936 Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Retro | Digg this!   • Email to a friend • • Flash your computer BIOS with Openbiosprog-spi Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool: If you've ever bricked the BIOS on your PC, then you might appreciate the Openbiosprog-spi project by Uwe Hermann. It is designed to be able to reprogram any flash memory that uses the serial peripheral interconnect bus (SPI), which could come in handy if you need to restore a botched firmware upgrade. Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Computers | Digg this!   • Email to a friend • • SchoolTool connects schools Tom Hoffman and I spoke about SchoolTool at the Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire. This system helps remotely-located schools share data with national governmental ministries of education, through Ubuntu and SMS. Read the Full Story » | More on MAKE » | Comments » | Read more articles in Education | Digg this!   • Email to a friend • • More Recent Articles Tesla's Pidgeon: A Lego ray gun MAKEcation: Powered bikes! Constrained Ball - concept line maker and measurer Giant skull collage, made from "Zombie" brain slices Handmade Music in NYC 8/29

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