Make Magazine adds Make: Projects

As if Make Magazine hadn’t already done enough for the DIY community; as if Maker Faire, the hyperactive Make:Blog and the absolutely crucial quarterly print magazine wasn’t doing five times as much as necessary to encourage and enable itinerant hackers everywhere; as if the Maker’s Bill of Rights wasn’t a sufficiently ingenious document to justify a little time off  — O’Reilly Media goes ahead and offers yet another gift to the Makers of the world, in the form of Make:Projects.

When we talk about Enabling Technologies, and the crucial role that online media is playing in the dissemination of information and the building of DIY community, Make:Projects is exactly the sort of entity we’ve got in mind. A self-described “structured wiki,” Projects offers nothing more (or less) than tailored, flexible platform for contributors to document their most interesting and successful DIY projects, with images, video, text and a crystal clear format that encourages step-by-step explanations.

The wiki’s brand new so content’s a little scarce, but there’s already a wondrous diversity of projects: build a $30 micro forge, make some bourbon chicken wings, sew a corset, or submit your own project.

Make Magazine publisher and co-founder Dale Dougherty will speak at IDSA2010 about the cultural aspects of the modern Maker movement.