Tall Bike Bobby: From Vancouver to LA on a Hand-Made Bicyle
From Vancouver to Los Angeles on a hand-made tall bike. Read more »
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Radio Shack Unveils the New Delta Series Mini PC Board at Maker Faire
Radio Shack is showing off a sample of their new Delta Series mini PC boards at Maker Faire. Read more »
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Arduino Announces New Wireless Linux Board
Today, Arduino announced a new family of wireless products that combine the Arduino architecture with Linux. Read more »
Categories: Arduino, Computers & Mobile, Electronics, Open Source Hardware | 11 Comments
Maker Faire for Start-Ups
The guys at Helios don’t have anything to sell at Maker Faire. Their “smart bike” handlebars won’t be available until the fall. But here they are, at Maker Faire, in a small booth with two prototypes bicycle handlebars mounted on bikes. They are engaging with a torrent of curious Maker... Read more »
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A Photo Tour of Maker Faire
Here's a quick peek at some of the things we saw this morning Maker Faire. Read more »
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Tinkercad is Back! Autodesk is Buying It
Autodesk announced today they’ve signed a deal to acquire Tinkercad and revive the popular web-based 3D design tool and its growing community of makers and educators. Read more »
Categories: Art & Design, 3D Printing, Computers & Mobile, Workshop | 4 Comments
Quiet, Humble Sugru Attracts a Crowd at Maker Faire
They are located directly across from the flashing lights of Make:Labs’ Nuclear Fuser. The pew-pew-pew of ray guns is in the air. But Sugru, the humble, quiet “self-setting rubber” is managing to attract quite a crowd at Maker Faire. It makes sense: in the epicenter of geeky tech culture there’s... Read more »
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Maker Faire Bay Area 2013 is Open!
Come one, come all. The original Maker Faire Bigtop has thrown open its flaps! Cue up the circuit-bent marching bands, switch on the robo-clowns, rev up the art cars. It’s time for Maker Faire! Read more »
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Maker Faire a Place for Innovators
A host of hopeful startups will be in evidence today the Bay Area Maker Faire. The fair's list of sponsors includes a startup category. Maker Faire is a chance for many of these companies to show their products to an appreciative audience. The relationship goes deep; the companies were started... Read more »
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Kid-Friendly Activities at Maker Faire
It's Maker Faire weekend! Check out this round-up of some of the kid-friendly performances, exhibits, and activities taking place Saturday and Sunday at the San Mateo Event Center. Read more »
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Maker Faire Bay Area Ready for Showtime
The production crew at MAKE has been preparing all week. Sets and stages have been built. Communications and power have been put in place. Finally, everything is ready to go. It's set-up day. This morning, the gates opened for makers and sponsors to check in and set-up their exhibits. The... Read more »
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Bunnie’s Form 1 Printer Teardown
Andrew "bunnie" Huang backed Formlabs' 2012 Kickstarter for the Form 1 liquid resin (SLA) printer and just scored a pre-release beta unit through his connect with Neoteny Labs.vAnd, naturally, the first thing he did was tear it apart. Read more »
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