Gareth Branwyn is Make: Online's editor-in-chief and a certified robomaniac! He shows how easy it is to build Pummers, the fun desktop robots featured in MAKE Volume 08.
Gareth Branwyn is Make: Online's editor-in-chief and a certified robomaniac! He shows how easy it is to build Pummers, the fun desktop robots featured in MAKE Volume 08.
Gareth Branwyn is the Editorial Director of Maker Media. For the last four years he's been the editor-in-chief of Makezine,com. Before that, he was an editor at Make: Books, an O'Reilly imprint. In that job, he edited the Best of MAKE, the Best of Instructables, the Maker's Notebook, and the top O'Reilly best-seller Make: Electronics. He is also the co-author of The Happy Mutant Handbook: Mischievous Fun for Higher Primates, and author of Jargon Watch: A Pocket Dictionary for the Jitterati, Jamming the Media: Reclaiming the Tools of Communication, and the Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots. Of the latter book, the Toronto Globe & Mail said it set “a literary standard for how all tech books should be written.†Gareth has also written for Wired, Boing Boing, Mondo 2000, Esquire, Details, the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun. He's also heavily involved in the DC art scene and writes catalog intros for DC galleries. Gareth lives in Arlington, VA and seeks frequent virtual facetime with his grown son, Blake, who's an artist and game designer living in Novato, CA.
