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Don’t Frak It Up: 5 Considerations Before You Hack Your Hardware

Don’t Frak It Up: 5 Considerations Before You Hack Your Hardware

By Kipp Bradford

Kipp Bradford

Kipp Bradford is a technology consultant and entrepreneur with a passion for making things. He is the Senior Design Engineer and Lecturer in Engineering at Brown University, where he teaches several engineering design and entrepreneurship courses. Kipp is also on the Technical Advisory Board for Make Magazine.

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There’s good hardware hiding in old appliances and gadgets. Here are 5 things you should consider when you hack your hardware.

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Ben Einstein Funds Hardware Startups — Here’s His Advice for You

Ben Einstein Funds Hardware Startups — Here’s His Advice for You

By DC Denison

DC Denison

DC Denison is the co-editor of The Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection of makers and business. That means hardware startups, new products, and market trends.

DC manages customer stories at Acquia, the digital experience company.

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Ben Einstein knows hardware startups. Get the tips to make sure your product can make it to the market.

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Go Behind the Scenes of Installing an Interactive LED Art Exhibit

Go Behind the Scenes of Installing an Interactive LED Art Exhibit

By Nicholas Squires

Nicholas Squires

Outdoors>Indoors

Nick is a Network, Systems and Software Engineering consultant. He spent 15 years at Boeing developing software and IT solutions for numerous space, security and renewable energy programs. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Physics and a Minor in Mathematics. Nick also teaches Mathematics and develops curriculum at FIDM in Los Angeles and is an internationally exhibited visual artist.

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Nick Squires details his time spent using his maker skills to produce an interactive art installation and performance.

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Your Next Hardware Project Might Be Biological, and Other News from the Solid Conference

Your Next Hardware Project Might Be Biological, and Other News from the Solid Conference

By David Scheltema

David Scheltema

I love to tinker and write about electronics. My days are spent building projects and working as a Technical Editor for MAKE.

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By Jordan Bunker

Jordan Bunker

Technical Editor at Maker Media. Maker. Hacker. Artist. Sometimes Scientist. Pretengineer. Builder of things. Maker of stuff.

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O’Reilly Media held its annual Solid conference this week in San Francisco. It’s an annual show  covering “Hardware, Software & the Internet of Things.” We found it eye-opening, informative, and occasionally controversial. Here’s some of what we heard at this year’s show: Synthetic Biology Joichi Ito, Director of the MIT Media Lab, explained that code is now being […]

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StartupBus, Product Pricing, and More News for Hardware Entrepreneurs

StartupBus, Product Pricing, and More News for Hardware Entrepreneurs

By Jon Christian

Jon Christian

Jon Christian is the co-editor of the Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection between makers and business. He's also written for the Boston Globe, WIRED and The Atlantic.

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Every week, we come across a wealth of advice and resources for hardware entrepreneurs. Here’s what we’ve been reading this week: Want to get on a bus with a bunch of strangers with whom you’ll conceive, build, and launch a startup in just 72 hours? That’s the premise of StartupBus, a peculiar project that’s currently […]

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