Aside from the issues with the article itself, I have to vent a bit about how far popular mechanics has fallen. All of the front page articles are either, "BUY

Aside from the issues with the article itself, I have to vent a bit about how far popular mechanics has fallen. All of the front page articles are either, "BUY THIS" or "TECHNOLOGY HAS DOOMED US ALL". There's no mechanics anything easily findable on the page. Where's the DIY "build these things / here's what you can use tool X for / develop this maker skill by x" that used to be the blood and soul of Popular Mechanics? In the 60's you could learn how to build a freaking atom smasher from one of their articles, now the articles can't even tell you which IKEA bookshelf is worth buying.