Maker Pro News: What if Someone Steals Your Idea? And More
Plus, Avnet buys Hackster, Particle adds Raspberry Pi support, and more security concerns about IoT devices.
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Particle CEO Zach Supalla’s Road Map for Navigating the IoT Frontier
Particle CEO Zach Supalla’s road map for navigating the IoT frontier.
Get the Morning Low Down with This Simple Ticker Project
Brush your teeth and comb your hair all while getting the latest on the weather and updates on your stocks for a better morning routine.
Digistump Announces Partnership with Particle’s IoT Cloud
Digistump has recently announced a partnership with Particle over cloud infrastructure that may well be a signal that the diasporan expansion in microcontroller market may be coming to an end.
Root Venture VC Raises $30 Million for Early Stage Hardware Startups
When Avidan Ross was planning his wedding, he bought a Jinan G. Weike LG500 laser cutter to make his own escort cards and table numbers. “She got a diamond, I got a 90W laser,” he said. It was that mentality that led Ross to launch a $30 million fund — or, more precisely, a pi-inspired $31,415,927 — […]
Use Photon to Make a Mysterious Interactive Magic Rope Box
The Magic Rope project, which utilizes a Photon, was inspired by Leena Ventä-Olkkonen, Tobi Stockinger, Claudia Zuniga, and Graham Dean, who showed how a public installation could be made that would allow large maps of the world to be positioned in various public spaces in a city. These maps would have short lengths of rope sticking out of […]
Zach Supalla Announces Particle
MakerCon was full of exciting announcements, interesting presentations, and even a few surprises. Zach Supalla, co-founder and CEO of Spark IO, shocked many when he ended his presentation announcing that going forward, Spark IO will now be Particle. We caught up with Supalla and discussed his experiences building the company, his decision to change their name […]
