Open Source Hardware Certifications for July 2025
Our favorite open source hardware certifications in July included a smartwatch, a monitor tool, and a living smartwatch.
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Raspberry Pi Display Shows Your Day at a Glance
A Raspberry Pi display shows Tom Scott’s family’s schedules, the weather, and even counts down the time before the kids’ school bus arrives.
This Vintage Macintosh Was Saved from the Trash (Sort Of)
This vintage Mac computer wasn’t destined for the trash bin… it was destined to become the trash bin!
What was your First Accidental Explosion?
MAKE Asks: is a weekly column where we ask you, our readers, for responses to maker-related questions. We hope the column sparks interesting conversation and is a way for us to get to know more about each other.
ColorHug: Open Source Display Colorimeter
Because color can differ wildly from one monitor to another, many designers and publishers rely on proprietary colorimeters to calibrate their displays. Software developer and electrical engineer Richard Hughes has been working on his own open source colorimeter he calls ColorHug. Along with the Linux software (also open source), it takes about a minute for ColorHug to take several hundred measurements and create an ICC color profile, which can be read by other operating systems.
How-To: Connect a Serial Console to Your Mac
I don’t know about you, but there’s something that delights me about using old and new technology together. Things like USB typewriters, twittering Teddy Ruxpins, and PayPal-accepting vending machines just really make my day. This morning, I was gleeful to discover that Justin Ouellette hooked up an old VT220 serial console to his Mac running […]
Low-power monitor tracks temperature over time
Need to collect data about something over a long period of time, and don’t want to be bothered with changing batteries in your recorder all the time?
