Make: Tips and Tales from the Workshop

Foreword

I had an English teacher who once told me that to really read a book, you have to write in the margins. To him, reading was interactive, and the books he left in his wake were dense with scribbles and dog-eared pages.

Aside from always keeping a pen on my nightstand, the deeper lesson it taught me is that two people can pick up the same book, watch the same movie, or listen to the same song, but the richness they extract depends on how prepared they are to engage with the work.

Week after week, Gareth and I comb through the internet. My job is to extract DIY projects; his is to gather the best tips, techniques, and clever hacks (like the collection you’re holding here). In a sense, we’re both writing in the margins of the same book, ...