Christmas is coming, what better chance to introduce our beloved children to the passion for Making? Here is one of the 3 Lunchbox Electronics projects so cute to have our babies working on them! We are Lunchbox Electronics and we are creating Build Upons: Light up bricks to build upon your existing LEGO® creations. Light…
Also scientific research can benefit of the startups funding “tools” and approaches. Here we are presenting an interesting infographics and a catching project to target the creation and spread of open source lab tools and device, easy to be made with common electronic boards and a 3D printer. Lowering R&D lab investment means pushing research…
The BSK is fun right out of the box and it works as a standalone toy, as well. It is a Lego® compatible toy that snaps easily to your bricks, and the iOS and Android app lets you record and playback sounds. It’s also a fully open platform where kids, collectors, makers, inventors, parents, and…
Making art more accessible to blind and visually impaired people is founder Marc Dillon’s new mission. After almost a quarter century working in the mobile industry — latterly at alternative mobile OS maker, Jolla, from where he finally departed this fall — he says it’s time to give back. The not-for-profit project — called Unseen…
OEM is a project to develop open-source energy monitoring tools to help us relate to our use of energy, our energy systems and the challenge of sustainable energy. Wireless sensor nodes sending data at to a web-connected Raspberry Pi base-station. Supports home energy, solar PV and remote temperature monitoring plug-and-play out of the box. Fully open-source Arduino IDE compatible…
OpenBCI is firmly believing into open source and spreading culture and knowledge on brain to computer interface. The’ve already launched a good product, but now on kickstarter they started a new campaign (already funded with more than 30 days left!) presenting two more products. With this campaign we are featuring two new OpenBCI Products, the…
A LEGO® compatible robotics toy for all kids. Play, Code & Innovate to develop 21st century skills! Phiro is a robotics & coding platform that teaches problem solving and computational thinking, basic skills required for the next generation. With Phiro, kids can become artists, engineers, economists, astronomers or anything they want. The project has…
The DC One unit is an interlocking, programmable, single-channel DC power supply that can be powered by either a battery or an AC/DC adapter. The DC One unit is an ideal power source for developer or hobbyist projects such as Arduino or Raspberry Pi powered devices. The DC One is designed to provide highly efficient operation, even with higher load…
Developed by Solido3D, a rapid prototyping and digital fabrication firm that describes itself as “the first Italian ‘digital factory’”, OLO is a device that its designers claim can turn any smartphone into a 3D printer. And, in about a month, OLO will be available for purchase for only $99 on Kickstarter. Though the actual mechanics…
Tracksoar is the smallest lightest open source APRS tracker available. It makes tracking weather balloons, model rockets, RC aircraft, and anything else that flies as easy as possible. It is able to report location, altitude, temperature pressure and humidity to Internet once a minute for twelve hours with 2xAA batteries. Because Tracksoar is open source…
Felfil Evo, the open source filament extruder for 3D printers made for makers. Ready for experimentation, it will help you save money! An easy to use filament extruder, which will allow anyone to produce their 3D printer filament on their own, starting from industrial pellet, wrong 3d prints or recycled wastes. You will be able…
Wireless, Credit-Card sized, Android + Linux + Arduino™, Embedded Sensors, starting from $49. What else? UDOO launched a successful fundraising campaign on Kickstarter and so the company managed to launch the commercial version. Here on the official Kickstarter page you can purchase it. Most interesting, a series of customisations proposed by the team to…
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