Christmas DIY project for children 2/3: Traffic Light Soldering Kit
Stop and Go Kit v1 This is a soldering kit that you build yourself! The holes on the base of…
Christmas DIY project for children 1/3: “Build Upons” World’s Tiniest Light Up Bricks
Christmas is coming, what better chance to introduce our beloved children to the passion for Making? Here is one of…
Why Quirky Failed — Lessons learned
There has been a lot of chatter in the startup community about a company you may not have heard of.…
Bq – bringing the manufacturing back to Europe with an impressive economical growth
BQ, a spanish company born in 2010 is now selling in many European countries. Became famous for their innovative approach…
Arduino SmartWatch, With Temperature, Altitude and Compass!
Our Brazilian friend Goncalves, “obsessed by having a fashion smartwatch”, worked on a very cool project: Arduino based smartwatch, with…
How to make an open hardware monitor-like device for your heart
A few weeks ago, my doctor told me to keep an eye on my heart with the help of DIY…
Design your own PCBs with Open Source tool Fritzing
We love the open source philosphy when we think about OS, hardware, software and programming languages as well. But what…
Orbit1: A Tabletop Electroplater turns everything into metal. On kickstarter now!
This is an awesome product. Most of us are wondering how to improve, in terms of material strength and durability…
The Open Source Snow Plow Robot: discovering the Firmware
Just a few weeks ago, we presented in this blog the maker version of a motorized snowplow, similar to those…