SAN MATEO, Calif.—Maker Faire never gets old. While we only scratched the surface after a 90 minute walk through the fairgrounds, the drone racing was the coolest thing that we saw on Friday afternoon. Every 10 minutes, a few drone pilots would sit with headsets and zoom their aircraft through a netted raceway, replete with…
When looking for a 3D printer, here are three things you might want to bear in mind: Build volume: How big a print is the 3D printer capable of doing? Materials: What filament material can the 3D printer use? The most commonly used material is PLA (polylactic acid), which is an odorless eco-friendly plastic made…
In a world where $5 computers and custom 3D-printed hardware are commonplace, it’s no surprise that maker culture has bloomed. Regular people all over the globe are developing exciting new projects on the daily, and sharing their hard work with the entire Internet. We can watch these everyday engineers design and build incredible DIY projects…
Raspberry Pi 3 was presented recently and we took the opportunity to talk to the founder of Rapsberry Pi Eben Upton of the new born. We asked him a few questions to find out why Raspberry Pi is interesting for the public of the Makers and what he thinks of other other board in competition…
MichielD99 is a 16 year old Belgian teenage maker. It is amazing that, with the tools and materials available today, a young person, really any person, can create something as sophisticated and professional-looking as this laser engraver. To drive the machine, he used an Arduino UNO with two NEMA-17 stepper motors and stepper motor drivers…
There has been a lot of chatter in the startup community about a company you may not have heard of. Quirky, which makes Wink (a major player in the smart home space), raised over $180MM over the course of six years from prominent investors and then filed for bankruptcy on September 22, 2015. Quirky has…
We are artisans of matter. We mix dreams to produce reality. We have this goal in our mind : making more accessible the advanced technology to anyone who needs it, because we want to be part of that humanity that shares and disseminates knowledge, to improve the existence of a community from the school, to…
BQ, a spanish company born in 2010 is now selling in many European countries. Became famous for their innovative approach to smartphones and tablets, designed to be affordable but really reliable and resilient: the best product you can buy at that price. BQ vision is to bring the digital and hi-tec manufacturing back to Europe,…
Next Meet IoT event will be held in Turin on October, 1st-2nd 2015. This year you have the chance to submit your IoT project and win one of the three €15,000 prizes offered by AIZOON! Each context is reserved to single participant below 35 years old with a degree or to teams with average age…
Sensly is a portable pollution sensor capable of detecting the air pollution levels using its onboard gas sensors to collect information about the various gases present. This information can be fed directly to your smartphone for real time push notification updates. Sensly uses industrial sensors that assure an accurate reading of the office, home, or work…
BOB fully embraces the #makers philosophy: low cost components, reproducible anywhere thank to a documentation freely available online, achievable by a 3D printer. BOB hopes to meet a specific need: among different causes of neonatal deaths it is estimated that about 75% occurs within the first week of life and is often due to…
Submit your project, DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 15! Most of you asked few more days to complete the application, we are very glad to grant that. So far, we received many interesting, challenging, surprising projects ; but we can’t miss yours, just because of wrong timing! For this reason, we are extending the submission deadline…
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