MAKE blasts into orbit and beyond with our DIY SPACE issue. Put your own satellite in orbit, launch a stratosphere balloon probe, and analyze galaxies for $20 with an easy spectrograph! We talk to the rocket mavericks reinventing the space industry, and renegade NASA hackers making smartphone robots and Lego satellites. Of course, as usual, we've got a full payload of other cool DIY projects, from a helium-balloon camera that's better than Google Earth, to an electromagnetic levitator that shoots aluminum rings, to a simple stroboscope that takes the most amazing freeze-frame photos.
Plus: party-pleasing automated photo booth that prints out photo strips, MythBusters' Adam Savage teaches you hard-shell moldmaking, and much more.
MAKE Volume 24, on sale October 26.
Short listing of articles:
• Making Your Own Satellites by Chris Boshuizen – Build and launch your own sat for as little at $8,000
• Rocket Men by Charles Platt – Mavericks of the Private Space Industry
• Listening to Satellites by Diana Eng – Tune in to space with a homemade yagi antenna
• Weather Balloon Space Probes by John Baichtal – Sense, signal and snap photos in the stratosphere.
• High Resolution Spectrograph Simon Quellen Field – Lab-worthy spectrum analysis for cheap
• Five Cool Participatory Space Projects by Ariel Waldman
• Cash Prizes for Space Scientists by John Baichtal – A summary of student and professional challenges
• Space Science Gadgets You Can Make for NASA – by Matthew F. Reyes
• Open Sourcing Space by Dale Dougherty
And more…
