If there’s one trend that is continuing to evolve throughout the Maker Movement, it’s modularity. DIYers are constantly seeking expedited and efficient ways to piece together their projects, all while bringing their ideas to life without the hassles of soldering and wiring messes. Joining the likes of littleBits, Modulo and even the latest product from…
This is an awesome product. Most of us are wondering how to improve, in terms of material strength and durability but also with a look at the aestethic part, our plastic 3d prints. Orbit1 is a solution. It is a compact and smart electroplater that, simply controlling it through a bluetooth smartphone, allow to deposit…
15-16-17 May 2015, San Mateo Event Center (CA – USA) will host the tenth edition of the Maker Faire Bay Area, the world’s largest exhibition dedicated to Innovation, Creativity and Technology. In 2014 more than 130,000 visitors came at the event from the whole world. This year, celebrating the 10th birthday, Bay Area is…
Less than 180 days to the third edition of Maker Faire Rome European Edition, and it’s time already to rush! Subscription are going to close next May, 31st. Don’t miss the chance to show yourself up! There are many ways to participate: you can exhibit your project: we’ll give you a booth with table and…
Maker’s movement is gaining members and popularity every day running, impacting nowadays on the way we make, build, industrialize goods. CustomMade prepared an interesting infographics showing where we are now: The maker movement is made up of some 135 million adults in the U.S., however, it’s more than just a U.S. movement. Maker faires that…
Our friend Ezra Schwarz just released a new visual programming environment for Arduino, called Embrio. Embrio isn’t intended for simple and educational use or to simply allow anyone who is not skilled on programming to create and code its own Arduino application. Embrio is indeed a serious Arduino development tool for embedded and embodied…
Voltera, a pocket Circuit Board Prototyping machine has been funded 659% on Kickstarter and it has still 2 days left. Rush to grab one, the launching price of $1,499 is nearly over! You can have your PCB in less than 1,5 hours, according to founders: Building hardware sucks! Whenever we wanted to create a circuit…
Open-Electronics will have a booth at MakerFaire Bay Area, stay tuned for further details! Maker Faire Bay Area 2015: How to Apply Event Date: May 15, 16 & 17, 2015 Location: San Mateo Event Center via MakerFaire | Call for Makers.
World’s first amazing Open Source refrigerator, american style, acting as central hub for your kitchen automation, shown at CES2015 by ChillHub: What exactly constitutes a smart refrigerator? For starters, ChillHub includes two integrated USB hubs (displaying a total of of 8 USB ports), and has built-in WiFi connectivity, which lets the device talk to control…
Critics of the open source economy point out that “Open source is a system of development that doesn’t have the requisite positive feedback loops needed to build a viable economic system.” Open Source Ecology released their “4 years review” demonstrating the contrary. OSE mission is to build the 50 machines fundamental to live our modern…
Upverter is a community hosting schematics, blueprints, bill of materials, very often also full layouts. Today they hit an incredible goal, read it directly from their annoucement: “This morning, our community has publicly shared over 32,000 open source hardware designs with the world. They span the full range of dev boards, power supplies, home automation,…
After almost two years of development, Arduino released its IDE 1.6. A lot of changes have been made thanks to the huge work of developers and, above all, thanks to the support of makers and passionate community that reported all the issues and, often, helped finding solutions. Among all…
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