Issue 5: hardware

From ham radio to hacked corn: this issue focuses on hardware and what we do with it. Articles cover learning hardware skills, from taking things apart to the essentials of circuit design; Arduino projects that push our ideas about what the Internet of Things could look like; and the raw details of how it all works, down to radio waves and concurrency in CPUs. Contents: Hardware for Art, Hardware for All by Sarah Groff Hennigh-Palmero Communicating With Radio Waves by Meli Lewis Circuit Classics by Star Simpson Concurrency by Clarissa Littler Taking Things Apart by Helga Hansen Fancy Circuits by Suz Hinton Arduino Hacked Corn Shows You Weird Weather by Leslie Birch