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Located inside Metrix Create:Space at the heart of Seattle, Metrix Open Hardware Lab features a pick and place machine and a reflow soldering line for manufacturing various open source electronics. Its first product, the Brainwave, purports to be the lowest-cost alzl-in-one 3D printer control board solution on the market. Read more »
Categories: Electronics, 3D Printing, Open Source Hardware | 4 Comments
On a recent visit to Manchester to attend the Future Everything summit, I couldn't pass up the chance to visit the UK's first fab lab, housed in a striking, slab-like building in the waterside district of one of Britain's great industrial cities. I spoke to Eddie Kirkby (of the Manufacturing... Read more »
Categories: Machining, Maker Pro, Open Source Hardware, Workshop | 1 Comment
Brooklyn, NY’s Alpha One Labs hackerspace is throwing a grand opening party (May 18th at 7pm) and fundraiser to buy a sign for their storefront as well as to bank funds in order to keep 3 months’ rent in the kitty. Your contribution will allow us to thrive without the... Read more »
Categories: Crowdfunding, Hackerspaces | No Comments
Christian Carlberg is a Cornell-educated mechanical engineer. After his undergraduate degree, he spent three years doing classical aerospace work and getting an MS, part time, at night school. At 25 he moved to LA to work in movie FX, specifically “practical effects”—physical, animatronic robot-based puppets now in decline thanks to... Read more »
Categories: Tools, Crowdfunding | 16 Comments
Crafter and engineer Fay Shaw, founder of bitwise E-textiles, is bringing both her charming light-up plush kits and her experience as a woman engineer and Maker to the Maker Faire Bay Area. Read more »
Categories: Craft, Electronics, Hackerspaces, Makers, Sewing | No Comments
How cheap can you make a cellphone? Bunnie Huang recently bought one in Shenzhen for just $12. There wasn't a carrier subsidy, it was contract-free, and unlocked. As Bunnie says, "...that about the price of a large cheese pizza, or a decent glass of wine." Read more »
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Maker Pro, Open Source Hardware | 7 Comments
This is the second of a three-part series on the Internet of Things with Atmel’s Tom Vu and Internet of Things Council member Michael Koster. Today: What is the IoT Toolkit? Read more »
Categories: Education, Electronics, Open Source Hardware | No Comments
“To not be amazed is to be numb to the technology of our day.” From the editors of MAKE magazine, The Maker Pro Newsletter is about the impact of makers on business and technology. Our coverage includes hardware startups, new products, incubators, innovators, along with technology and market trends. Read more »
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Ever battled SRAM limitations with your sketch on the Arduino Uno? Decided reluctantly to break out an Arduino Mega, and suffer with the resulting shield incompatibilities? Then the new Goldilocks board might be just what you're looking for in a micro-controller. Read more »
Categories: Arduino, Crowdfunding, Electronics | 3 Comments
This is first of a three-part series on the Internet of Things with Atmel's Tom Vu and Internet of Things Council member Michael Koster. Part 1: Inspiration and Requirements. Read more »
Categories: Education, Electronics, Open Source Hardware | 5 Comments
NESIT Hackerspace in Meriden, CT, is building a RFID-equipped security system to secure the space. Starting the project I needed to figure out how to interface a RFID reader with the Pi. I wanted to interface it with the UART pins but due to time constraints I ended up using... Read more »
Categories: Raspberry Pi, Hackerspaces | 1 Comment
TechShop Raleigh-Durham is closing, effective Saturday, April 20, 2013. In an email to MAKE, Dan Woods, chief operating officer and VP of business development at TechShop, said "In the final analysis, it is obvious that the location is not convenient enough to the vast majority of the maker community in... Read more »
Categories: General, Hackerspaces | 30 Comments
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