Engadget’s Expand Conference Recognizes the Importance of Makers
The popular tech site’s first conference included a number of faces familiar to Make, including our own Mark Frauenfelder, and DIY Drones chief Chris Anderson.
Maker Pro
Maker Pros are the innovators that are designing tomorrow’s products and businesses. Stay tuned for the latest news on manufacturing, startups, and industry trends.
Shadowrun, Atlantic City, and the ups and Downs of Kickstarter
Introducing the MAKE Crowdfund Fund. The MAKE Crowdfund Fund. We are putting up a chunk of money each month. We are going to nominate a set of active KS campaigns with a maker sensibility to them. We are going to ask you the readers to decide which one we should back. Whichever one you select, we’ll back at a level to get the primary product. If the project funds, and delivers, we’ll write up and shoot a whole un-boxing, testing, and tear-down sequence to report back on how good the end result was. We want to do our part in both supporting maker KS projects, and keeping them honest.
Maker Pro Newsletter #22
“You can’t wait for users to come to you. You have to go out and get them.” From the editors of MAKE magazine, 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. Please send […]
Jane ni Dhulchaointigh: Where Sugru Comes From
Sugru, the self-setting rubber that can be used to hack, mod or fix almost anything, can be found in many a maker’s toolbox. Jane ni Dhulchaointigh, who invented it, is well-known to makers in the UK and further afield. The story she tells of Sugru’s development over the last 10 years is an inspiring one of struggle and perseverance. So when she offered me a tour of their factory in Hackney, I jumped at the chance to find out more about how it’s made, and where it came from.
How to Design the Perfect PCB
Check out this guide for designing a custom PCB.
Open Source Hardware Survey
Adafruit’s johngineer posted the Open Source Hardware Community Survey today. Our goal is to arrive at a better understanding of who we are as a community, why and how we use/make open-source hardware, and how our practices and numbers are changing over time. For this purpose, we are asking all those who use and/or develop […]
Open Hardware Summit E-Paper Badge
Just another reason got attend this September’s Open Hardware Summit: the awesome name badges, code-named BADGEr! They’ve got an e-paper screen, an on-board ATmega328, and a Micro SD slot. It can also function as an Arduino shield! The boards were designed by WyoLum and manufactured by Seeed Studio.
