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One free scan finds every outdated or missing driver and matches the right update for your exact hardware.Free scan · exact hardware matchMake: Volume 85 — Turn It Up! is a maker-magazine issue centered on DIY music and sound, from synth circuits and homemade instruments to 3D-printed speakers. Its cover story follows a working radio-controlled version of Thing from Wednesday, while the wider issue ranges into fabrication, craft, science, and home automation.
What is in Make: Volume 85 — Turn It Up!?
The issue’s central thread is making sound: building simple electronics, exploring modular synthesizers, and creating acoustic or 3D-printed instruments. Make: describes the issue as containing 33 projects and skills; that is the publisher’s description of this issue, not an independently measured statistic. The official issue page lists the contents and page references.
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DIY music and sound projects
- Printed Circuit Bird (p. 22) presents Nightjar, described as a hackable analog synthesizer for generating birdsong.
- Modular Synthesizers (p. 40) surveys the subject from Moog to the synth DIY scene, followed by Build Your First Module (p. 48), an Avalanche Oscillator build.
- Pitch Perfect (p. 52) introduces the Undertoner, described in the contents as a simple synthesizer circuit that always plays in tune. The contents do not explain its design or limitations.
- Electronic Music Software (p. 58) covers software samplers and synths; the contents do not name particular programs.
- Soda Bottle Marimba (p. 60) is presented as easy to make, inexpensive, and producing a pure tone.
- That Cutting Edge Plastic Sound (p. 64) covers 3D-printed speakers and handheld instruments, and Sonic Playground (p. 66) explores unusual musical constructs.
- Squishy Tech: Play with Your Food (p. 82) pairs an Atari Punk synth with fruit as part of its Weird Resistors series.
- The Most Annoying Noise (p. 92) is an electronics fundamentals feature about a screamer circuit.
The radio-control cover story
To Bring a Thing to Life (p. 28) is about making a working radio-controlled prop of the disembodied hand Thing from Wednesday. The issue introduction also points to Next Level Radio Control (p. 31), which covers channel mixing, telemetry, and on-the-fly programming with OpenTX. The displayed description does not identify a specific transmitter, receiver, or radio model.
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The table of contents makes this a broad maker issue rather than a music-only collection. It includes a flip-dot animation display (p. 68), carving a chain from a tree branch (p. 74), an LED-filament ring (p. 78), CNC router workholding clamps (p. 88), electro-etching brass (p. 96), tips for glass-like clear 3D prints (p. 114), and Home Assistant, Matter, and DIY devices (p. 118). Other features cover makers in defense of Ukraine (p. 14), legal DIY fireworks (p. 26), an ancient Egyptian stone drill recreation (p. 104), classic Tomy mechanical toys (p. 108), and Peter Hazel’s large-scale Lucy the octopus project (p. 128).
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Who is this issue for?
- Music and electronics makers: the synth, sound-circuit, and homemade instrument features offer the most direct match.
- R/C builders: the Thing prop and OpenTX feature are the issue’s radio-control strand, although the contents do not specify compatible hardware.
- Fabrication and 3D-printing readers: the issue includes printed speakers and instruments, clear-filament techniques, CNC workholding, and electro-etching.
- Broad-interest makers: craft, science, home automation, toys, and large-scale art appear alongside the sound projects.
Where to find the issue
The publisher’s issue page presents a “Subscribe to Make: Buy the Issue” prompt for the print issue. Check that page for current purchase options; the available issue description does not establish current price or stock, an Amazon listing, or affiliate terms. No specific component list or R/C hardware model is identified in the displayed contents, so those details should be checked in the individual build articles rather than inferred from the issue overview.
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- Subject: TEXAS FARM & RANCH MAGAZINE, Year Published: 2017
- Publication Name: TEXAS FARM & RANCH MAGAZINE, Country Of Manufacture: United States
- Issue Type: FALL, 2017 VOLUME, 85, Publication Year: 2017
- Language: English, Era/Year: 2017
- Country/Region Of Manufacture: United States, Type: Magazine
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