My Mission to Bring Easier PCB Fabrication to Egypt
Moamen Ayman had to leave Egypt to continue his microcontroller education, but now he’s trying to make electronics and PCBs easier at home.
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Makeblock: A Construction Set for the 21st Century
Makeblock founder, Jasen Wang, talks about the growing role of the Maker Movement in China.
HYREL 3D Printers
Daniel Hutchinson of Alpharetta, GA, is the front man for Atlanta-based HYREL 3D, a startup launched in November through a highly successful Kickstarter campaign. The idea behind their HighlY-RELiable 3D printer design is to provide an open-platform fused-filament system that does not cost as much as “industrial” machines, but requires less assembly and maintenance time than kit-based machines.
Ogre “Designer’s Edition” Funded 2000% and Rising
A dice and cardboard wargame raising half a million on Kickstarter? The sixth edition of the classic wargame “Ogre” looks like it’s going to be awesome.
Best of MAKE: Our Year in Crowdfunding
Though it seems good form to use the umbrella term, for us here at MAKE, so far, “crowdfunding” essentially means “Kickstarter,” a search for which returns exactly 100 published posts in our archives, dating back to the first Kickstarter we ever mentioned (the MakerBeam project) in October 2009. Of major competing crowdfunding sites, only IndieGoGo…
Prototype Quick-Build, Low-Cost 3D Printer
Printrbot, just successfully crowd-funded by Lincoln, California resident Brook Drumm, bills itself as an all-in-one 3D printer kit that “can be assembled and printing in a couple of hours.” Hack a Day’s Brian Benchoff gives a cogent technical analysis. Apart from the Kickstarter itself, Mr. Drumm maintains a Flickr set, a Vimeo account, and a fledgling blog dedicated to the project.
