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Editor’s Desk 05
The latest updates from Make: and readers like you.
Welcome: Seeing Both Sides Now 06
Making can be playful, or serious, or both depending
on the project.
MacGyver Challenge: Teenage Wasteland 07
After an all-night rager, you have to drain a flooded
basement before your parents get home — and the
power is out!
Made on Earth 10
Backyard builds from around the globe.
FEATURES
Makers in Defense of Ukraine 14
A year of fighting back with innovation.
Printed Circuit Bird 22
Nightjar is a beautiful, hackable analog electronic
synthesizer for generating birdsong.
Making Fireworks 26
Yes, you can legally build and shoot your own, with
help from the DIY fireworks community.
RADIO CONTROL
To Bring a Thing to Life 28
Altogether ooky! Building the “impossible” robot hand
for Netflix’s Wednesday.
Next Level Radio Control 31
Bring models and robots to life with channel mixing,
telemetry, and on-the-fly programming, using OpenTX.
DIY MUSIC
The Anthem of Our Lives 38
Universally beloved and infinitely diverse.
Modular Synthesizers 40
A blast from the past: from the mighty Moog to today’s
synth do-it-yourself (“SDIY”) scene.
Build Your First Module 48
Start on the bunny hill by making this DIY Avalanche
Oscillator.
Pitch Perfect 52
Build the Undertoner — a simple but mysterious
synthesizer circuit that always plays in tune.
Electronic Music Software 58
Save significantly with software samplers and synths!
Soda Bottle Marimba 60
Fun to play and easy to make, this DIY instrument has
a wonderfully pure tone.
That Cutting Edge Plastic Sound 64
3D print your own speakers and handheld instruments.
Sonic Playground 66
These ingenious constructs push the limit of what
makes a musical instrument.
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ON THE COVER: Jesse Velez’s radio-controlled
pentapod “Thing” for Netflix’s Wednesday busts
out some beats.
Photos: Jesse Velez and Charlyn Gonda
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