O'reilly media's three-year-old quarterly magazine, Make, is the manifesto for do-it-yourselfers, urging people to unleash their creativity with a screwdriver and a glue gun. Want an electric guitar amp? Start with a cigar box. Need an aerial picture of your house? Rig a camera to a kite.rnThe magazine's playfulness, however, disguises a potentially disruptive trend: giving individuals the power to change hardware just as they do software. "Why can't I do to my car what I do to my computer?" says Dale Dougherty, Make's editor and publisher. "We're seeing the collision of computing and 'stuff,'" adds Timothy O'Reilly.rnNeither O'Reilly, 54, nor Dougherty, 53, is an engineer. In the mid-1980s they wrote computer manuals and hawked them at conferences.
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