Makers in Space: What Was Old Is New Again
Setting the record straight on the history of Do-It-Yourself satellites.
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Interplanetary Makers: NASA Needs Your Input!
Put your CubeSat into lunar orbit and see if it can send back data from the farthest reaches of space.
Raspberry Pi Unveils Tiny New “Compute Module”
New hardware from the Raspberry Pi Foundation lets anyone incorporate the brains of a Pi into their own circuit boards.
The Pressure Suit Chronicles
Meet the man who’s building — and testing — his own pressurized space suit.
DIY Satellites: Now and Near Future
Space is becoming increasingly accessible to more people thanks to plummeting costs, weight, and energy use of the technologies needed for freeflying satellites to sense and direct their orientation, communicate with the ground, and perform complicated computations in real time on orbit. The dawn of this new age of DIY satellite making is in no small […]
Building an Arduino out of Paper
Following in the footsteps of the original Paperduino—and the Paperduino Leonardo—comes the Paperduino Tiny.
BeagleBone Black is Back
The challenge of finding a BeagleBone Black board is likely a concern of the past.