RSSShawn Connally
Shawn is managing editor of MAKE and CRAFT magazines. She has been a writer and editor for several publications, including the Marin Independent Journal, Web Review, the Industry Standard, Yahoo Life, Web Techniques, and publications in Japan and New Zealand. Shawn began working for O’Reilly in the mid-90s, writing for GNN, the Global Network Navigator – the web’s first commercial website. She worked as deputy editor of O'Reilly's Web Review, one of the first weekly zines on the internet, and then worked on two Olympic sites and the America’s Cup website (in New Zealand in 1999-2000) for Quokka Sports. She and her husband, Bruce Stewart -- web editor of the O'Reilly MacDevCenter and Emerging Telephony websites -- collaborated on a series of articles for ZDNet about living in New Zealand at the turn of the millennium.
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Toolbox
Wireless signal detector for the paranoid, a fire-powered soak, iPhone hacks, and tales of sustainability.
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Toolbox
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18: ReMake America page 156
Toolbox
Magnetic tacks, a doorbell for your cubicle, science for the hungry, and lessons from the Game of Life.
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Toolbox
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16: Spy Tech page 176
Jonesy Town
15-year-old Sam "Jonesy" Goldstein is busy crafting his way into an art career.
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Handmade
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CRAFT:
07: Shoes page 20
PlayStation Wizard
Teenager Max Maruszewski built a PlayStation console case out of Legos.
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Made on Earth
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13: Magic page 28
In The Bag
Simple costumes don't need to be boring.
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halloween2007: Halloween page 57
Graveyard Cake
The trick is in the chilled chocolate trees.
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halloween2007: Halloween page 71
Ghoulbox
Our favorite tools, websites, and tips for Halloween, from Soundbugs to edible bugs, gross-out cakes to movable monsters.
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halloween2007: Halloween page 118
We're All Alright
MAKE's managing editor Shawn Connally welcomes you to Volume 10: Home Electronics.
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Welcome
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10: Home Electronics page 11
Star Trails
Josch Hambsch shows off star trails with digital photography.
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Made on Earth
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10: Home Electronics page 19
Handmade
Reports from the world of extreme crafting.
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Handmade
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CRAFT:
03: Japanese Influence page 14
Bazaar
Crafty goods we adore.
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Bazaar
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CRAFT:
03: Japanese Influence page 146
Photos from the Inside
Toys sent through the X-ray machine give new insights.
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08: Toys and Games page 64
Made On Earth
Report from the world of backyard technology.
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Made on Earth
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06: Robots page 18
Makin' Man
Inside a versatile maker's machine shop.
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Workshop
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06: Robots page 158
Toolbox
The best tools, software, gadgets, books, magazines, and websites.
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Toolbox
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06: Robots page 174
Made On Earth
Reports from the world of backyard technology.
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Made on Earth
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05: Science, Weather, and Outdoors page 18
Toolbox
The best tools, software, gadgets, books, magazines, and websites.
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Toolbox
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05: Science, Weather, and Outdoors page 172
Lazy Progress
Managing Editor Shawn Connally expounds on laziness as the ultimate motivator.
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Welcome
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04: Music and Kits for the Holidays page 10
Toolbox
The best tools, software, gadgets, books, magazines, and websites.
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Toolbox
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04: Music and Kits for the Holidays page 168
Made on Earth
Reports from the world of backyard technology, including a shopping cart go-kart, the "Solar Death Ray," a demolished house sculpture, a gas tank bass instrument, and some seriously big speakers.
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Made on Earth
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03: Cars and Halloween page 16
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Unsafe At Any Amperage?
Behind the scenes of our high-voltage dilemma: whether to publish a dangerously cool project in MAKE magazine's "Fringe" issue.
by Tom Anderson, Gareth Branwyn, Shawn Connally, Dale Dougherty, Mark Frauenfelder, Joe Grand, Saul Griffith, William Gurstelle, Bunnie Huang, Tom Igoe, Mister Jalopy, Steve Lodefink, John MacNeill, David Pescovitz, Charles Platt, Paul Spinrad, Phillip Torrone;
March 16, 2007
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