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The maker movement's own magazine: projects, tool reviews and the long-running argument about what counts as making something.
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Make: Magazine sits in DIY & Life Hacks under Learn, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Build guides, repair databases and instruction sites for physical tasks. The internet at its most straightforwardly useful.
Yes. Make: Magazine is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Make: Magazine without signing up for anything.
Yes. Make: Magazine works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
Millions of product manuals as PDFs, for the appliance whose paperwork went in the recycling back in 2011.
Finds your nearest free community workshop where volunteers help you fix the thing instead of replacing it. Thousands worldwide now.
Campaigns for the right to repair and runs community fixing parties, publishing the data on what breaks and why.
Fifty years of home renovation broken into how-tos, with actual tradespeople explaining why the obvious shortcut fails.
The manga-side release tracker, covering scanlation status and licensing across tens of thousands of series since 2001.
Colour in countries, states or regions and export the result, which is where most of the maps you see argued about online are made.
Street-level photography stitched together from volunteers' dashcams and phones, covering a great many roads no Google car ever drove down.
Pomodoro, custom and kitchen-timer modes with a shareable link, so a whole team can run the same twenty-five minutes.
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