We saw some of the biggest names and sponsors at the Maker Faire, including Microsoft, Radio Shack, Arduino, SparkFun, and MakerBot More pictures below.
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Maker Faire Day 1 – Robots!
We all know it’s just a matter of time before robots take over the world. Here’s a preview of some of the forms our future overlords might take. More pictures below.
Maker Faire Day 1 – Booth and Exhibits
Some of the most eye-catching booths and exhibits from Day 1 including an open source geiger counter, the 3D printer village, the youngest Maker at the Faire, and the glow-in-the-dark room. And, in contrast to the San Mateo Faire earlier this year, we only saw one steampunk booth! More pictures below.
Maker Faire Day 1: Dangerous Prototypes Booth
A look at the Dangerous Prototypes booth from Day 1 of Maker Faire. We were happy to share a space with Brian from teho Labs, and to get a visit from SQKYBeaver, one of our bloggers.
Making business with OSHW projects
Remo has posted his thesis about open source hardware. We covered this previously, but the thesis was not available publicly: In this website you will find my Master Thesis Open Source Hardware Fostering User Entrepreneurship: Empirical Evidence from Arduino Users and the abstract of a working paper I am going to present at OHS 2011: […]
After hours at NYC Resistor hacker space
Eric Pan (Seeed Studio) and Ian visit the NYC Resistor hacker space in Brooklyn after the Maker Faire on Saturday night. More pictures below.
Logic Sniffer case designs: yaobls case update
Yet another Logic Sniffer case: I’m interested in releasing some open source board designs under the Creative Commons license. Some of these board designs would benefit from having a small case, so I’ve been looking into various options for getting custom cases built. One of the approaches I investigated was using the Shapeways online SLS […]
Free PCB Sunday: Pick your PCB
We go through a lot of prototype PCBs, and end up with lots of extras that we’ll never use. Every Sunday we give away a few PCBs from one of our past or future projects, or a related prototype. Our PCBs are made through Seeed Studio’s Fusion board service. This week two random commenters will […]
Universal Serial Bus general-purpose device controller
rsdio writes: Depending upon the quality of open-source 8051 compiler tools, this might be a good chip (one of many like the EzUSB) for open hardware development without being stuck with Microchip’s partially open tool chain. The TUSB3210 is a USB-based controller targeted as a general-purpose MCU with GPIO. The TUSB3210 has 8K × 8 […]
New York eats
Our usual food crawl was thwarted by poor internet connections and lack of planning, but we still managed to grab some good grub. We got luck and stumbled on a festival in Little Italy. More pictures below.
Maker vs Maker
David Cuartielles from the Arduino crew takes a picture of the Thermal Tweeter. We were so excited we snapped this picture.
World Maker Faire New York 2011 setup preview
The night before Maker Faire is for setup and schmoozing with other makers. We took our hidden camera to bring you these preview pictures. Big sponsor this year: Radio Shack with their new DIY/Maker push. Surprise sponsor this year: our preferred distributor Mouser seems to be getting into the DIY game. PS: back scratchers are […]
MMA7455L free PCB build
Chad built a free MMA7455L breakout board. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer. Via the contact form.
Free PCB coupon via Facebook to 2 random commenters
Every Friday we give away some extra PCBs via Facebook. This post was announced on Facebook, and on Monday we’ll send coupon codes to two random commenters. More PCBs via Twitter on Tuesday and the blog every Sunday. Don’t forget there’s free PCBs three times a every week: Free PCB Sunday. The classic. Every week, […]
Open Hardware Summit 2011
Open source all-stars: Mitch Altman (TV-B-Gone), Eric Pan (Seeed Studio), Bre Pettis (MakerBot Industries). In the background: Bunny (Chubby). A few hundred folks gathered together who are really passionate about open hardware and innovation. Via Twitter. More photos below the fold.
New 7400 Competition sponsor: Hacked Gadgets
Hacked Gadgets donated 3 IR Jammer kits to the Open 7400 Competition. Get your entry in and this and other cool hardware can be yours. There’s still time to become a sponsor of the most logical contest ever, just drop us line on the contact form.
Open source temperature controller
Michael writes: I found this website that I think you may like. A guy named Karel created an open source temperature controller that he used to modify a laminator to make it better at transferring ink to a PCB for traces. It looks like it worked very well and he used the temperature controller to […]
Week in (p)review: September 16, 2011
Facebook free PCB Friday is on the way. Don’t forget to share your current project in the comments or the forum. Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week: Open Hardware Summit presentation Limited support during Open Hardware Summit and Maker Faire Entries in the Open 7400 Logic competition: Telephone Intercom from TTL,2 […]
Superprobe free PCB build
fcobcn built a free Superprobe PCB. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer.
7400 competition entry: Telephone Intercom from TTL
Here’s an entry in the Open 7400 Logic competition: Telephone Intercom from TTL This is the only craziest project I ever made, beginning in June 2007 and completed in November 2007. Very complex circuits, and uses a lot of IC (about 38 IC). If you think this is a waste, yes! Indeed. However, why do […]