"When we spotted the premier issue of Make magazine at LinuxWorld 2005 Expo, we were intrigued by its premise: a magazine chock full of geeky do-it-yourself projects. After checking it out a bit more closely, we decided we had to not only review it, but try one of the projects as well.
"In the interest in giving a fair review, we decided to try building one of the project proposals. While the aerial kite photography project looked like a lot of fun, it seemed awfully complicated and time-consuming, so we opted to try building the $14 video camera stabilizer (steadicam) instead."