LED Sneakers Brighten up Your Step
These Firewalker LED sneakers respond to your footsteps with a cascading rim of lights around the soles.
Open Source Hardware
Your Projects: Four Awesome Projects Shared by MAKE Readers
“Your Projects” is a column that features some of the awesome creations our readers have been making. These projects from our readers come from the MAKE Google+ Community and beyond.
MAKE Asks: What do we Call all These Boards?
Embedded system, microcontroller, computer-on-a-chip? What should we call these awesome gadgets, anyway?
See AeroQuad at World Maker Faire
AeroQuad is a quadcopter project that freely shares its software and hardware, and is controlled by an Arduino Uno or Mega, or alternatively, AeroQuad’s STM32-based flight control board which packs a magnetometer, gyroscope and accelerometer.
Creative Marketing Helps NashMicro buy Training Kits
NashMicro, the Nashville Microcontrollers Users’ Group, recently had a need to raise some money to buy training kits. This is a story about how they used their maker ingenuity to accomplish the task.
Open Source Hardware Survey
Adafruit’s johngineer posted the Open Source Hardware Community Survey today. Our goal is to arrive at a better understanding of who we are as a community, why and how we use/make open-source hardware, and how our practices and numbers are changing over time. For this purpose, we are asking all those who use and/or develop […]
Open Hardware Summit E-Paper Badge
Just another reason got attend this September’s Open Hardware Summit: the awesome name badges, code-named BADGEr! They’ve got an e-paper screen, an on-board ATmega328, and a Micro SD slot. It can also function as an Arduino shield! The boards were designed by WyoLum and manufactured by Seeed Studio.
