As creator Franco Molina points out, there’s a lot to worry about when playing guitar in front of an audience. Actually playing is one thing, but you have to pay attention to the crowd, move around on stage, make sure you don’t have any wardrobe malfunctions, and… hit a footswitch to change between clean and…
Scientists from Cambridge University have developed a 3D printable microscope that can be used to test water. The device uses a Raspberry Pi and a tiny camera, and is currently being tested by British charity Oxfam, which could use it to speed up water testing in remote areas. The five researchers behind the WaterScope initiative…
Easily and quickly connect your Arduino boards and manage your projects with the Cayenne web dashboard (mobile app support coming soon). Features Include: Drag and drop widgets to create a customized project dashboard Create widgets for any connected sensor or actuator Sketch files provided to quickly get started with minimal effort Visualize Arduino sensor data…
Are you worried about security and privacy issues of your Amazon Echo? Let see Shawn Hymel’s solution by creating and configuring a kill switch that is activated over IFTTT and a set of instructions to power-off the device. First of all, you have to connect all the needed hardware components, based on the Particle Photon board. Once you…
Star Wars fans will be really excited about the opportunity to turn a dream into reality. Through this “tractor beam” you are able to move small objects using sound waves, in the comfort of your own home — at least if you own a 3D printer. The research assistant Asier Marzo and his physicists team of…
3D printing is being part of our lives and we’re probably getting used to the idea of doing it to innovate and improve our work, and why not, our daily existence. It is always worth to look at the reality and not at the illusion, but the data and the market are quite clear. They…
The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) is kicking off the process to create an Open Source Hardware Certification. In addition to all of the amazing things that will happen at this year’s Open Hardware Summit, our goal is to be able to roll out the first version of the Open Source Hardware certification this fall….
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,…
Another interesting printer is on kickstarter with a clever mechanism for expanding the bed size: The Thingystock is completely upgradeable by the user. The frame is made in 3 parts and, by simply adding additional pieces, can be expanded to support larger bed sizes. The rods can be replaced with taller ones, the arms can be…
This beautiful talk by Natalia Lukaszewicz, digs into the implications of patent law in the word of Makers and open source hardware. A resource you can’t lose if you’re in this business: The Maker movement and patent law are like two planets moving on the orbit of innovations. Occasionally, they collide … because the Maker planet…
At CES in Las Vegas, European open source 3D Printer producer Ultimaker announced two variations of the award winning Ultimaker 2: the Ultimaker 2 Go and Ultimaker 2 Extended. We’re looking forward to see how the design files and BOM will be made available to the community! …Ultimaker 2 Go and Ultimaker 2 Extended, two cutting-edge…
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