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MAKE is devoted to a growing community of resourceful people who believe that if you can imagine it, you can make it… With all the talk of tough economic times ahead, we’re doing a series of interviews with makers & friends around the world who either make a living from “making” or just earn extra money with the things they make. We’re calling this series “Make: A Living – DIY for fun and profit”. There are many different paths to making a living off what you love doing, we hope these stories and makers inspire you as much as they have inspired us.

Our first interview is with Mike Spreng (moses410) – a high school student who sells premade MintyBoosts (this open source hardware kit is available at the Maker Shed Store, it’s a DIY kit that charges iPods, iPhones and just about anything you’d charge via USB!).

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Instructables user atozfriendly is being a disco ball for halloween, and she shares her process in case you, too want to be one. Reminds me of the year I went as a Hershey Kiss!

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Matt Mets is making an infrared camera intervalometer for his Nikon camera. Lucky for us, he’s also an electrical engineer, and explains things very well. He writes:

An intervalometer is a device that sends out a signal at regular intervals. When hooked up to a camera, they can be used to take time lapse images, bracket exposure lengths and precisely time long exposure images (over 30 seconds) that the built-in timer on the camera cannot normally generate. When hooked up to a flash, they can be used to create a strobe effect. Being this useful, there are many different DIY projects to make them. Unfortunately, most of them work by triggering an electronic cable release, which my Nikon D40 and N75 happen to lack. Luckily, though, both of these cameras do sport a nice infrared control port. This brings us to this project- an infrared remote intervalometer. Todays portion of the project is to get the microcontroller to talk to the camera.

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A nice green flyer that pretty much says it all about this environmentally-friendly event:

More info here; I hope to see you there!

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Here’s an fascinating gallery of people who made clothing from their dog’s hair (dogs also pictured)… There seems to be enough interest in this that there’s a book on it too “Knitting with dog hair” via CRAFT. I’m impressed, a great use of dog hair that would normally just get brushed away… I’m going to ask Tina if we can get some of these folks for the next cover of CRAFT…

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