Open Source Robotics: A Buyer’s Guide
Build them from scratch, buy them complete, or meet somewhere in the middle.
OSHW
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 […]
Last Chance for Open Hardware Summit Papers
The Open Hardware Summit participants will discuss and draw attention to the rapidly growing Open Source Hardware movement. Want to participate? Better get your paper in today! We are seeking proposals for talks, posters, and demos from individuals and groups working with open hardware and related areas. Submissions are due by JUNE 28, 2013. Topics […]
Is One of Our Open Source Heroes Going Closed Source?
A new player on the field by the name of Tangibot recently arrived, not with a new printer or even an innovative new derivative, but with a near-exact clone of arguably the most prominent printer in the market: the MakerBot Replicator. Will MakerBot close their products in an attempt to protect themselves from future cloning?
New in the Maker Shed: Solder:Time II Watch
If you liked the original Solder: Time Watch Kit, you’ll love the feature packed Solder: Time II! It features an impressive LED matrix display and is reprogrammable using the Arduino IDE.
Dangerous Prototypes at Maker Faire Bay Area
Our pals at Dangerous Prototypes put together these wonderful videos about Maker Faire Bay Area 2012. The first gives you a maker’s POV of being at the Faire, setting up, what to bring, etc. The second video offers a rundown of 13 projects that Ian of DP found at the Faire.
Makers and Shakers Inspire at Hardware Innovation Workshop
The first MAKE Hardware Innovation Workshop wrapped up this evening. Featuring over 30 of the most well-known innovators in the MAKE space, the event found a perfect home in the storied garden-roofed research facilities at PARC Xerox. As one of the speakers commented, this was probably the first time that all of these path-breaking […]
