Beyond Kickstarter: The Rise of Equity Crowdfunding
Before Kickstarter and Indiegogo, the way to raise money for your startup to was to sell equity. That model is on its way back.
Technology
Blink Blink Makes Creative Circuits Designed by Girls, for Girls
From ambitious entrepreneurs to casual meet-up participants, women are proactive about engaging with STEM and with other women in their field. Besides their shared affinity with science, tech, engineering, and math, they often find that they have another thing in common. Many of these women can recall a time when they walked into a classroom […]
Open Source Prosthetic Hands Focus on Function and Personality
A reddit user asked for workouts for his brother, who lost his hands. Another user responded with a 3D printed prosthetic.
Theremin-Like Sculpture Looks Like Superman’s Fortress of Solitude
Exp.Inst.Moon is a combination of musical instrument, technology, and art. As an interactive art installation, users touch electronic sensors that relay signals through the electronic components to an Arduino microcontroller that converts the input into projections of sound and light. It’s an example of how technology can transform someone from merely viewing art into becoming […]
Explore This Elegant Wooden Arduino Puzzle Box
If you’re like me, you find yourself fighting the urge to push every button, flip every switch, and turn every knob you see. This arcade-style puzzle box was designed to satiate those deep-seated desires. Powered by an Arduino, with completely custom wooden enclosure and components, this is a wood shop geek’s first foray into the world of […]
Sculptural Clocks Are Perfect Fusion of Analog and Digital
Bernie Rohde became obsolete as a TV repairman almost 30 years ago, having only gone to school for analog appliance repair. To catch up to a growing tech world, he decided to teach himself how to build digital circuits. He liked to play around with components, so he built exploded views of what was going […]
The Latest in Bionic Limbs Will Take Your Breath Away
Bionics is defined as the application of biological methods and systems found in nature and design of engineering systems and modern technology, also known as bionical creative engineering. Present and future bionics aren’t the thing of science fiction; they are our current reality and are very much present in our everyday life. The current advancements […]
