Cool Crowdfunding: Playing, Creating, and Hacking
This Cool Crowdfunding, we’re intrigued by hacker tools, sensors for art, a tiny lathe, and more.
Month: June 2025
Go Beyond Reality With a Circuit Bent Glitch Cam
Ade circuit bent a toy camera that takes pictures that look like something from another universe. He started with a cheap toy camera, added potentiometers between a ribbon cable and the connector, and fit it all into a Frankensteined case that’s part original, part 3D-printed, and part bottle cap. The result combines electronics, minor soldering, […]
OSHWA Healthware Highlight: COSMIIC
COSMIIC has a unique story that starts in the city of Cleveland in the 1960s when a set of closed source implantable devices for commercial and research use were first being designed and produced. Now 60 years later, the culmination of their work–The COSMIIC System–is open source and available to researchers working in the field of neuromodulation.
Dive Into Robotics with Make: & D-Robotics!
Join Make: and D-Robotics on a livestream where we’ll unveil the RDK X5 dev board and give away a myCobot robotic arm!
Review: xTool F1 Laser Cutter
The phrase “small but mighty” might have been created to describe the xTool F1. If you’re a craft person looking to take a laser to events to personalize items, you’ve found your laser.
FAB25: The Global FabLab Gathering Comes to Central Europe
Mark your calendars for July 4–11, 2025, as the global FabLab community meets in Brno and Prague for FAB25. FAB25 is the official global event of the FabLab community, organized by The Fab Foundation (MIT), The Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT (CBA), Make more (CZ), and FabLab Brno (CZ). For the first time in Central Europe, this is your chance to connect with innovators worldwide.
makeITcircular 2025 Is Open: Calling All Real-World Circular Economy Projects!
Are you looking to find green solutions to age old or modern problems? Are you invested in designing for the circular economy? If so, Maker Faire Rome has a contest for you! The #MFR makeITcircular contest is dedicated to tangible solutions for the circular economy. Now in its sixth edition, the initiative supports projects that […]