Ever wonder how many hours of grilling are left in a tank of propane? Makers Frank Vigilante and Brendan Glunz built a prototype device that can be attached to the standard brass valve between a propane tank and grillย to measure the internal pressureโand sends the data to an app, so you can check your grill’s […]
There’s just over a month left to submit your own project to the Pitch Your Prototype challenge, a collaboration betweenย Make: magazine and Cornell University with the goal of digging up promising prototypes from the Maker community. The individual or team that wins the challenge will be awarded $5,000 and have the opportunity appear onstage at […]
In 2013, while they were enrolled at Shenzhen-based hardware accelerator HAXLR8R, Tarun Pondicherry and Josh Chan created a prototype of an educational electronics system they called LightUp. It was a crude mockupโPondicherry recalls spray painting their single, painstakingly-constructed prototype in an alleywayโbut their concept was a big one: a snap-together kit for building electronic circuits […]
Amaranthus palmeri, commonly known as pigweed, has long threatenedย cotton and soybean crops in the southern United States. More recently, it’s begun to develop a resistance to glyphosate, a common agricultural herbicideโposing a problem so grave that farmers in Texas lobbied the EPA last year to let them deploy the severe chemical propazine to fight the […]
With theย currentย Pitch Your Prototype challengeย submission period now open, let’s takeย a look at aย winning team from a previous round. Design that Matters is a nonprofitย founded by a team of MIT students to create tools to help meet basic needs in the developing world. In 2013, they’d developed a barebones phototherapy system they called Firefly, meant toย treat […]
If you’re a Maker Proโa tinkerer interested in goingย to the next level by bringing an invention to marketโconsider entering your design in the Pitch Your Prototype Challenge, a collaboration betweenย Make:ย and Cornell University with the goal of digging up promising prototypes from the Maker community. The winning individual or team,ย which will be announced at the blowout […]
“Well-designed products donโt just pop from Steve Jobsโ brain into mass production.” โย Luke Iseman From the editors ofย Make:, the Maker Pro Newsletter is about the impact of Makers on business and technology. Our coverage includes hardware startups, new products, incubators, and innovators, along with technology and market trends.ย Please send items to us atย makerpro@makermedia.com. Are you […]
