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April 2, 2015
New Project: LED Tank Top
Countdown to the PSoC Pioneer Challenge Deadline — Your Final Weekend
This is the final weekend to prepare your PSoC Pioneer Challenge project
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What Do Jurrassic Park, Twisted Metal, and Waffles Have in Common? Power Wheels Racing
Coming to the 10th Annual Bay Area Maker Faire is the 7th season of Power Wheels racing. The Power Racing Series is a vaguely popular nerd “sport” that mods simple toy store ride-on plastic cars and converts them into $500 25mph electric racing machines. The series’ main take home is the “enforcement” of […]
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Hardware Development: Spark Shows How to Make a Prototype PCB
Prototype 2 Production, a blog by the Spark team about bringing products to market, published the first of a three-part series this week on how to build a printed circuit board prototype. The guide, written by Spark’s head of supply chain Will Hart, walks readers through PCB fabrication specs, checking for design rule […]
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Dragon Innovation Announces “Seal of Approval” Program for Crowdfunding Hopefuls
Dragon Innovation, which has worked with the wildly successful businesses Pebble, Coolest Cooler, and BlueSmart to estimate the actual costs of bringing their crowdfunded products to market, is expanding its offerings with Dragon Certified, a program to give companies a financial “seal of approval” before a crowdfunding campaign even begins. […]
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Maker-Friendly Collaboration Site Knowable Shuts Down
Knowable, an ambitious German startup that aimed to connect Makers, inventors, and hardware professionals and help them collaborate and share resources, announced this week that it was shutting down after three years. “Unfortunately neither [social network component] Polymer nor Knowable saw the traction that was necessary to support a venture funded business […]
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Check Your Grill’s Remaining Propane? There’s An App For That
Ever wonder how many hours of grilling are left in a tank of propane? Makers Frank Vigilante and Brendan Glunz built a prototype device that can be attached to the standard brass valve between a propane tank and grill to measure the internal pressure—and sends the data to an app, so […]
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Triple Threat: BoXZY Puts Printing, Milling, and Lasers in One Small Box
On my way to the Midwest RepRap Fest, I stopped in at HackPittsburgh to meet up with the BoXZY team and take a look at their new machine in person. BoXZY is doing well on Kickstarter; with its promise of being an all in one 3D printer, milling machine, and laser etcher, it’s enticing backers. The BoXZY features […]
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Gallery: MIT Celebrates Arduino Day
The Media Lab at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts provided a bright, stark-white-and-glass frame for a US-based celebration that featured four of the five Arduino founders. David Mellis, one of the co-founders, is a graduate student at the Media Lab. He was the in-house connection. (No surprise that the fifth co-founder, Gianluca […]
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March 30, 2015
New Project: Pi Spy Surveillance System
The Raspberry Pi B+, Pi Camera Module, and free MotionPie software make it easy to keep a discreet eye on things
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