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MAKE In This Issue... Permission to Suck American Steel: Making on a Large Scale Like to Make? Let's Meetup! Hacking a Police Radar Your Comments How-To: Fireproof Paper Repairing Objects With 3D Prints MakerBot Replicator 1 Sale in the Maker Shed Lindsay's Technical Books Ships Last Catalog More Recent Articles Permission to Suck I was rooting around for Dave Kadavy's email when I came across a great post on his blog about giving yourself "permission to suck." Kadavy is the author of the excellent Design for Hackers. We reviewed the book in MAKE's current issue. We're going to feature an excerpt from the book in near future. For now, here's an excerpt from his blog. It's good reading, especially makers. We're big on failure at MAKE. Not as a goal, but as part of the process of making itself. Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • American Steel: Making on a Large Scale American Steel Studios is unique in the U.S. because its size, cheap rent, and those giant cranes. Industrial scale artists and designers from across the United States come there to make big stuff. Here are some pictures of what I saw. Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Like to Make? Let's Meetup! MAKE is organizing its first international maker meet-up Nov. 15. The idea is to help makers find each other in their local communities, spark conversations and get people making. Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Hacking a Police Radar Gregory "Mr. Vacuum Tube" Charvat breaks down an old school police radar. Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Your Comments Welcome to the fifty-first installment of Your Comments. Here are our favorites from the past week, from Makezine, our Facebook page, and Twitter. Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • How-To: Fireproof Paper OK, it's probably more accurate to say "flame resistant" or "flame retardant" paper, because the fire does actually damage the paper, but it won't catch flame and burn on its own. The treatment couldn't be simpler. Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Repairing Objects With 3D Prints Greg Petchkovsky’s 3D printing project makes a fun point with the help of a color 3D print: By combining 3d scanning, 3d digital modelling, and 3d printing, it is possible to create amazing and surprising effects, objects that can seamlessly blend between reality and imagination. In this tutorial, I describe [...] Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • MakerBot Replicator 1 Sale in the Maker Shed The MakerBot Replicator 1 isn't the newest 3D printer on the block but it's still an excellent option in home digital fabrication. Now it's an even better option because this week only we're having a sale on our remaining Replicator 1s in the Maker Shed! Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • Lindsay's Technical Books Ships Last Catalog I think I was fourteen or fifteen when I received my first Lindsay's catalog, ordered from a print ad in the back pages of Popular Science or Popular Mechanics—I don't recall which. "Build Lightning Bolt Generators!" it trumpeted. "Melt Metal! Rediscover Lost Technology!" I clipped along the dotted line and sent $3.00, cash, through the US mail. I've been a regular buyer ever since. Read the full article on MAKE • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments • More Recent Articles MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup

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