DIY perpetual burning book

Back from break to more (more, and more!) new books. But just as exciting, our first issue of Make: Technology on Your Time arrived. The theme of volume 13 is magic, featuring "more than a dozen fiendishly ingenious illusions you can build to prove your powers of prestidigitation." Want to make a floating head? A telekinetic pen? An Orpheus fireball shooter? I was taken by Uncle Bill's burning book, which spews flames every time it's opened.



In addition to the magic stuff, find out how to make a backyard graywater (used household water) system, a music control system, a lost screw finder, an internal combustion engine (using Home Depot parts), or Zippy, the recycled marionette (out of old zip drives). You can even learn how to transistorize your iPod. Though, I must say I personally feel very little nostalgia for my old transistor radio.

The only bad thing about this magazine is that it just comes out four times a year. On the other hand, there are 200 packed pages to work through.