DIY Builder Holiday Buying Guide – Gift Tips
A few Holiday suggestions that I’ve been enjoying this year, for the science geek/builder/pizza fanatic in your life. Tools Flexible shaft precision screwdriver: Don’t tell Apple but I’ve taken my Macbook apart plenty of times, made easy with this mini-screwdriver. It has 6 double-ended…
How to Build a Temporary Wood-fired Brick Pizza Oven with Cheap, Easy to Find Materials
This is a great, low-cost project for someone who wants to test out the ins-and-outs of brick oven cooking. Super fast and easy to build, and with minor modifications, it can be assembled semi-permanently and get you through a season of baking delicious breads…
Tomato Plants: Day 54 – First Tomatoes Have Arrived
Great news from the tomato garden: three of the plants have started to produce fruit. They’re brand new, but looking good so far. It’s going to be a good summer.
Tomato Garden, Week Three
At the start of march, I planted eight tomato plants. Let’s check in and see how they’re doing. For comparisons sake, here’s Roma 1, the day it was planted.
Starting a Tomato Garden
Suppose you like to make pizza, so much so that you cook it a few times a week. At that point, you’re probably exploring all the tips and techniques to make all the ingredients fresh and delicious. Which is exactly why I decided to…
Hi, I'm Mike. I’m the executive editor of Make: magazine, and host of Discovery channel’s Punkin' Chunkin' and Catch It Keep It, TV shows where I build and explain crazy machines that crush stuff, blow things up, shoot fire, all in the name of science.
I've previously worked at Wired and ReadyMade magazines, writing about how to utilize new technology in our everyday lives.
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