Bob Parks

Bob lives in Vermont, where he contributes to Wired, Business 2.0, and other magazines.

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The Music of Chance
Roger Nelson's Global Consciousness Project searches for meaning in random numbers.
From MAKE: 09: Fringe page 62

Open Source Open Water
Bryan Horling rescues houseplants with his Linux-based plant waterer.
In Made on Earth from MAKE: 08: Toys and Games page 22

Switched-On Cookware
Homemade lamps are the gateway drug to more sophisticated dalliances with electricity. Bob Parks explores kitschy old kitchen treasures made into fabulous new lamps.
In Recycle It from CRAFT: 01: Craft Premiere page 152

Garage Biotech
For a safer world, Drew Endy wants everyone to engineer life from the ground up.
In Proto from MAKE: 07: Backyard Biology page 42

Made On Earth
Amazing things your neighbors build in their basements.
In Made on Earth from MAKE: 04: Music and Kits for the Holidays page 16

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.
In Made on Earth from MAKE: 03: Cars and Halloween page 16

Made on Earth
Reports from the world of backyard technology, including a cockroach-controlled robot, high altitude glider, student-built cyclotron, Vee 9 solar vehicle, robotic CD burner, coffee mug ramjet, and more.
In Made on Earth from MAKE: 02: Home Entertainment page 14

Blockheads
Lego: the ultimate prototyping material. Seriously.
From MAKE: 02: Home Entertainment page 36

Made on Earth
Amazing things that ordinary people are making in their garages and backyards, including the Niles Monorail, steam locomotives, desktop trebuchets and guillotines, serious legos, a thermo-electric keg wrap, Meccano computing machinery, and more.
In Made on Earth from MAKE: 01: Make Premiere page 14

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