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| Sep 26, 2024 | The Digital Frontier: Designing Tomorrow's Processors | In the realm of technology, the pulse of innovation beats strongest in the world of microprocessors. The landscape is evolving, and at the forefront is David Harris, a luminary in digital circuit design. His work is not just academic; it’s ... |
| Sep 26, 2024 | The Rise of Decentralized Networks: A New Era in Mobile Connectivity and Digital Identity | In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, a seismic shift is underway. The rise of decentralized networks is reshaping how we connect, communicate, and authenticate our digital identities. This transformation is not just a trend; it’s a... |
| Sep 24, 2024 | Дэвид Харрис, автор «Цифровой схемотехники и архитектуры компьютера», ответил на вопросы про его следущую книгу и вообще | Встретился на ланч с Дэвидом Харрисом, автором (вместе с Сарой Харрис) популярного учебника «Цифровая Схемотехника и Архитектура Компьютера», который за последние 10 лет помог закрыть монументальную дыру в техническом образовании десятков в... |
| Aug 14, 2024 | Стоит ли делать продолжение банкета c обсуждением работ в электронной промышленности в LA? | В прошлое воскресенье в хакерском клубе в Маунтин-Вью прошла встреча русских и украинцев живущих в северной Калифорнии (1, 2). На встрече особенный интерес вызвало обсуждение работ по проектированию микросхем: проектирование на уровне регис... |
| Aug 13, 2024 | Пайка плавно перешла в Верилог и обсуждение работ в электронной промышленности | В воскресенье состоялась встреча в хакерском клубе Hacker Dojo в Silicon Valley. Встреча была анонсирована в украинской фейсбук-группе U4U Uniting for Ukraine USA и русскоязычной группе Russian Speaking US QA Network. Заявленная тема была &... |
| Oct 22, 2020 | An inventor wants to use his 3,000-kilogram mechanical exosuit in a human-powered racing league | The Furrion Prosthesis exosuit is a four-ton, human-powered mech suit that looks like something out of science fiction.
Its creator, Jonathan Tippett, spent nearly 15 years perfecting its design.
He sees "mech racing" as the high-... |
| Jul 10, 2019 | Bankrupt Maker Faire revives, reduced to Make Community | Maker Faire and Maker Media are getting a second chance after suddenly going bankrupt, but they’ll return in a weakened capacity. Sadly, their flagship crafting festivals remain in jeopardy, and it’s unclear how long the reformed company ca... |
| Jun 7, 2019 | Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff | Financial troubles have forced Maker Media, the company behind crafting publication MAKE: magazine as well as the science and art festival Maker Faire, to lay off its entire staff of 22 and pause all operations. TechCrunch was tipped off to... |
| Apr 2, 2019 | LittleBits CEO Talks New Disney Partnership, Girls in STEM & Immigrant Entrepreneurship | Founder and CEO Ayah Bdeir launched littleBits in 2011. Nina Roberts
If you’re not an engineer, chances are that a small child playing with the modular electronic toy system littleBits, knows more about powering technology than you do.
Litt... |
| May 18, 2018 | Arduino announces the Uno WiFi Rev 2 and MKR Vidor 4000 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Arduino, the 15-year-old startup behind the eponymous open source microcontroller, launched two new products today at Maker Faire Bay A... |
| Apr 29, 2018 | Why some VCs are investing in hardware startups | Hardware has made a comeback in Silicon Valley, as evidenced by the crowded Maker Faire events (coming up in San Mateo, California from May 18 to May 20) to the recent HardwareCon event in San Jose.
Conductive Ventures recently raised $100 ... |
| Apr 29, 2018 | Why some VCs are investing in hardware startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Hardware has made a comeback in Silicon Valley, a... |
| Sep 8, 2017 | Learn about new frontiers in assistive technology | If you need something to get your Maker Faire juices flowing, Hackaday NYC is hosting a discussion and demo later this month at Kickstarter’s HQ in Greenpoint.
The talk will feature Anita Perr and R. Luke Dubois of the NYU Ability Project, ... |
| Jun 13, 2016 | Inno Approved: Tech Events to Know About This Week (6/13-6/20) | Like DC Inno Approved? A fresh version comes out every Monday with new ideas and tech events to check out
Here's a list of great tech, business and networking events in D.C., Maryland and Virginia, to check out this week. Keep an eye out fo... |
| May 21, 2016 | From drone racers to pinball: Maker Faire Bay Area 2016 doesn’t disappoint | reader comments 24 with 19 posters participating
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This life-size automaton was a hit.
Cyrus Farivar
Just in case you forgot where you are, this masking tape-made sign will t... |
| May 17, 2016 | Eye Candy and Secret Sauce: Ten Tips for Launching a School Maker Faire | It’s Maker Faire season for the Greatest Show (& Tell) on Earth. Maker Faire is a place to show what we’ve made and to share what we’ve learned with others—and schools across the globe have been eager to bring this celebration of invent... |
| Mar 10, 2016 | Cities drive the maker movement | Brooks Rainwater Contributor
Brooks Rainwater is the director of the Center for City Solutions and Applied Research at the National League of Cities.
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Autonomous vehicles make congestion pricing even more criti... |
| Feb 12, 2016 | How Glowforge Made Crowdfunding History | When I think about what is likely to break future crowdfunding records, I think of products with mass-market consumer appeal: Smartwatches, cocktail coolers, revivals of popular 80’s TV shows.
So when Glowforge launched a next-generation l... |
| Nov 22, 2015 | The State Of Hardware For 2015 | Cyril Ebersweiler Contributor
Cyril Ebersweiler is co-founder and managing partner of HAX, and a general partner at SOSV.
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10 key lessons about tech mergers and acquisitions from Cisco’s John Chambers
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| Oct 16, 2015 | Maker Fest coming to Pakistan for the first time | Maker Fest, a subcontinental-variation of the world-popular event “Maker Faire, is coming to Pakistan for the very first time and is going to take place in January next year. So, what really is Maker Fest?
Maker Fest is an event, or more o... |
| Sep 29, 2015 | To change our economy we need to change our thinking | It’s not surprising that new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s appointment has been well received by the startup community. When he talks about the Australia of the future being agile, innovative and creative, he is speaking their language.... |
| Sep 28, 2015 | BioPic—Space-Ready Garden Pods for Fresh Food in Your Apartment | Chili peppers and other plants from BioPic, shown in the Italia Pavilion at World Maker Faire 2015, at the New York Hall of Science. (Photo: Brady Dale for Observer)
The BioPic system was designed for growing vegetables with space in mind, ... |
| Sep 15, 2015 | Meet the UD professor helping lead the open hardware movement | What’s the biggest challenge the open hardware community faces in its crusade to raise awareness?
According to University of Delaware biomechanics and robots professor Dustyn Roberts, the answer lies in all the buzz and misplaced importance... |
| Sep 9, 2015 | This 8-Year-Old Is Making A 3D Printable Smartwatch For Kids | Varun Nayar, Tech Times 09 September 2015, 11:09 am
As if you weren't already feeling guilty for not doing enough, here comes 8-year-old programmer and entrepreneur Omkar Govil-Nair, whose Kickstarter campaign to manufacture 3D printable sm... |
| Aug 25, 2015 | The Maker And The Man: An Interview With DIY Artist Chris Hackett | Varun Nayar, Tech Times 25 August 2015, 12:08 pm
"The idea is to take stuff out of the everyday world and demystify it in the making of it. That's incredibly powerful. It still enthralls me now and enthralls other people, too."
Ch... |
| Aug 20, 2015 | Intel on the maker community: ‘It’s never been a more exciting time to invent the future’ | During a keynote at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel corporate strategy officer and resident anthropologist Genevieve Bell explored what it takes to be a “Maker” in the modern do-it-yourself technology phenomenon.
Bell link... |
| May 26, 2015 | Obama, Steampunk, and Steve Wozniak on a Segway: Highlights from a Decade of Maker Faire | Over the past ten years, thousands of learners and creators of all ages have attended Maker Faire, from its launch in the Bay Area in 2006 to 119 independent Mini and Features Maker Faires across the world in 2014, including events in Tokyo... |
| May 17, 2015 | Titanfall IRL: We saw some crazy-looking giant robots at Maker Faire 2015 | reader comments 28 with 26 posters participating
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MegaBots unveiled its first fully functional robot: " The giant robots from science fiction are coming."
Cyrus Fa... |
| May 17, 2015 | Giant Robots, A Motorized Rhinoceros And A Banana Piano – What We Loved At Maker Faire | The tenth annual Bay Area Maker Faire is in full swing this weekend in San Mateo, California, bringing out steampunks, robot enthusiasts, and little engineers in training from all over Silicon Valley. Here we present to you some of the inve... |
| May 12, 2015 | Maker Faire Goes Online With A New Social Network For Makers Called MakerSpace | There’s Maker Media, MakerCon, MakerShed, Make: magazine and 131 Maker Faire events that take place throughout the world. Now the founders of all these Makers want a way to connect what they refer to as the “maker movement” online. So Maker... |
| Apr 14, 2015 | Barrel of Makers is a roving makerspace looking for a home | Almost three years ago, oil painter Jessi Taylor found herself getting a wee bit upset with traditional artists.
“When you go to art shows, people are really secretive about what they do,” she said. “I’ll ask somebody, ‘How did you get this... |
| Nov 14, 2014 | Squareknot’s $300K saga | Squareknot was broke.
It was spring 2014 and the startup, which bills itself as a Github for making things in real life, had run through all its funding: $500,000 from Center City’s Gabriel Investments and $30,000 of founder Jason Rappaport... |
| Sep 24, 2014 | Startup that makes protein bars out of crickets just raised $1.7M [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
Exo Protein has raised $1.7 million in equity-only funding on an indefinite offering, according to an SEC filing. The company produces protein bars from crickets. Its cofounders, Gregory Sewitz and Gabi Lewis, hatched t... |
| Aug 19, 2014 | Makerspace at Tennessee children’s hospital lets kids build a better hospital room | Given the opportunity and the right tools to make a hospital stay less uncomfortable and unpleasant, young patients at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Tennessee came up with some interesting inventions.
One patient, f... |
| May 19, 2014 | How to Subvert the K-12 Classroom | There are a few key buzzwords floating around the education world and mediascape that drive some educators nuts--“standards,” “data-driven alignment,” “value-added.” But last Thursday in one area of the world, teachers came together to chat... |
| Apr 9, 2014 | Making the 'Greatest Show (and Tell) Event on Earth' | Attention, all you edtech-y, circuits and gadgetry-loving inventors of your own future! The annual Bay Area Maker Faire has officially been announced, and it's revving up to be one heck of an event for expert makers and newbies alike.
Why? ... |
| Sep 25, 2013 | Why the Maker Faire Is Important for Teachers and Students | Maker Faire is a teacher’s dream come true. The 1-3 day event—which exhibits where students can meet different makers, with hands-on experiences that include tinkering, creating, building and modifying what is already built to make it stron... |
| Sep 25, 2013 | Hugbots, tiny cars, and 3D-printed almost-clothes at Maker Faire | reader comments 30 with 24 posters participating
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Maker Faire took place over the weekend, September 21-22, at the New York Hall of Science in Queens (which is also the host... |
| Sep 21, 2013 | Intel researcher debuts 3D-printed, open source robot Jimmy | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Meet Jimmy the 21st Century Robot. The artificial intelligence, or brains, of the robot is open source. So is the design and the techni... |
| Sep 21, 2013 | Intel researcher debuts 3D-printed, open source robot Jimmy | Meet Jimmy the 21st Century Robot. The artificial intelligence, or brains, of the robot is open source. So is the design and the technical description for printing him out as a 3D object. So feel free to clone the robot. Just don’t call him... |
| Sep 20, 2013 | See MakerBot’s 3D scanner this weekend at New York Maker Faire | Makers can’t actually own a MakerBot 3D Scanner, the Digitizer, until the tools start shipping in October, but they can see the device this weekend, at The New York Maker Faire.
MakerBot will be showing off the Digitizer on the Innovation S... |
| Aug 1, 2013 | The Sowing of a Startup Community in Telluride | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
All it takes are the right seeds and soil for a startup community to take root and thrive. I recently saw this first hand in a seemingly off-the-beaten-path city—Telluride, CO... |
| Jul 8, 2013 | Combat Kids’ Summer Boredom With Maker Camp | Are the doldrums setting in on your family’s summer vacation? Chase that naughty boredom away with a free online summer camp that will get kids doing and learning at the same time.
MAKE Magazine is kicking off Maker Camp, aimed at kids and ... |
| Jun 1, 2013 | America, it’s time to start making things again | Making things has deep roots in American culture.
The Founding Fathers were do-it-yourselfers, from Jefferson’s explicit idealization of the self-sufficient yeoman farmer to Franklin’s intrepid experimentation with electricity. Over the cen... |
| May 24, 2013 | Get ready for Vancouver's Mini Maker Faire with this weekend's Breaker Faire | Article content
Looking forward to Vancouver’s upcoming Mini Maker Faire?
Start with a pre-event this Saturday — Breaker Faire – at the Vancouver Community Laboratory where participants will have a chance to smash a car, with the wreckage t... |
| May 22, 2013 | A day at the Bay Area Maker Faire, the greatest show-and-tell on Earth | reader comments 22 with 16 posters participating, including story author
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After three days of sessions at Google I/O in San Francisco, I headed south to San Mateo to catch a... |
| May 22, 2013 | Why NonGeek Parents Have the Advantage in Parenting Young Makers | What does it take to inspire, raise, and nurture young Makers? Do they need lots of “stuff” lying around the house to create with? Do they need Internet access to connect with and learn from other makers? Do they need parents who respect an... |
| May 19, 2013 | Startups and big corporations embrace the maker movement | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
SAN MATEO, Calif. — The maker movement has helped... |
| May 19, 2013 | ‘World’s Toughest Fixes’ host: Learn a trade | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
SAN MATEO, Calif. — Sean Riley, the host of Natio... |
| May 19, 2013 | I’m turning VentureBeat into a makers-centric zone for today | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
All the usual writing crew have abandoned me (wha... |
| May 17, 2013 | Google’s I/O experiment unites sensors, ‘big data,’ and the cloud | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google tricked out its entire I/O conference with... |
| May 16, 2013 | Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement changed one man’s life | A Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur and a Hollywood actor cross paths at a coffee shop in San Francisco’s Financial District.
You’d never know by appearance alone, but one of these men will sleep on the streets tonight.
Scott Glover and Marc... |
| May 13, 2013 | At its conference, Google will be tracking your every step | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you’re one of the 6,000 developers attending G... |
| Oct 1, 2012 | The Bike Singularity Is Nigh: The Velo Bike Has An Open Source Brain | The Velo is still a bit of a pie-in-the-sky project but I’d totally be down with it if they made a few in real life. Designed to reduce the “problems” associated with biking – namely collisions and mapping – the bike/microprocessor system i... |
| Jul 16, 2012 | 9 amazing Raspberry Pi case mods (including one that looks like a raspberry!) | Raspberry Pi, the $25 Linux PC that fits in your hand and runs off AA batteries, is finally shipping in bulk today. One of the most amazing things about this little baby is the case mods: innovative, interesting cases that hobbyists and tin... |
| Jul 16, 2012 | 9 amazing Raspberry Pi case mods (including one that looks like a raspberry!) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Raspberry Pi, the $25 Linux PC that fits in your ... |
| May 22, 2012 | The maker movement starts to attract venture capitalists’ interest | Every year, my family looks forward to Maker Faire, a family-friendly celebration of DIY mayhem, with eager anticipation. But when venture capitalists get involved in the maker movement, you know something new is afoot.
One such VC is Brad ... |
| May 20, 2012 | In Which The Maker Faire Restores Your Humble Correspondent’s Faith In Humanity | A life-size fire-breathing dragon. A fully robotic calliope band. A full-scale flight simulator built by teenagers. An entire herd of homemade R2-D2s. Electric cars, steampunk fashion, a robot petting zoo, a piano made of bananas, and a car... |
| May 10, 2012 | GE And Quirky Team Up To Develop The Milk Jug Of The Future | For just about a week now, GE and product development network Quirky have been running an interesting contest — they’ve challenged people to come up with ways to improve everyday objects by making them “smarter with software”. Unlike the tr... |
| Jan 19, 2012 | Kiwi Crate delivers crafts projects to your door, secures $5M in funding | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Kiwi Crate, a subscription service that delivers ... |
| Jan 19, 2012 | Kiwi Crate delivers crafts projects to your door, secures $5M in funding | Kiwi Crate, a subscription service that delivers hands-on crafts to your door, has secured $5 million in its first round of funding the company announced Thursday.
The company, which launched in October 2011 with $2 million in seed funding,... |
| Jan 18, 2012 | Dylan’s Desk: Saddle your horses and fire up the 3D printer | If you subscribe to my newsletter you can read these columns a whole day before they appear on our website. All the cool kids are doing it!
Above: The print head of the MakerBot creates plastic objects, like this green thing, layer by layer... |
| Oct 11, 2011 | Kiwi Crate raises $2M to deliver hands-on projects for kids | Kiwi Crate is announcing today it has raised $2 million in funding for a subscription service that delivers hands-on crafts and activities for pre-school and kindergarten age children.
The service is aimed at parents who don’t have the time... |
| Sep 20, 2011 | Animated GIFs of the Coolest 3D Printers at the World Maker Faire | 3D printing has exploded onto the DIY scene in the past few years, and no one's more excited about that than the exhibitors at the World Maker Faire in New York. After just a quick lap around the grounds outside the New York Hall of Science... |
| Sep 19, 2011 | Take Me To Your Metro: Microsoft Releases Robotics Developer Studio 4 Beta | I popped into the Microsoft tent at Maker Faire yesterday and spied the new Robotics Developer Studio 4, a beta product that allows programmers to control robotic platforms from within Windows. Microsoft is focusing on the software for thes... |
| Sep 12, 2011 | Goooood Morning, Silicon Alley! Gary Sharma’s Picks for the Week of September 12 (The Look Ma, I’m on TV! Edition) | This is a guest post from Gary Sharma (aka “The Guy with the Red Tie”), Founder of GarysGuide, Mentor at ER Accelerator and proud owner of a whole bunch of black suits, white shirts and, at last count, over forty red ties. You can reach him... |
| May 23, 2010 | Maker Faire’s do-it-yourself technological marvels (photo gallery) | The fifth annual Maker Faire drew tens of thousands of people to the county fairgrounds in San Mateo, Calif. Started by Make magazine for the Do-It-Yourself crowd, the event is a blend of wacky Burning Man style creativity, Rube Goldberg in... |
| May 18, 2010 | From Tech Town to Maker Faire, Detroit’s Entrepreneurship Culture is Growing | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
In April 2009, the Kauffman Foundation formally engaged on the ground to support the New Economy Initiative, TechTown, and other efforts to re-energize the Detroit entrepreneu... |
| Feb 15, 2010 | The Importance of Fear, Risk and Hacking | Last week I met Gever Tulley, author of the provocatively-titled “Fifty Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do.” The book grew out of a 2007 TED talk about why embracing and exploring danger ultimately lessens it. (See! Good things do... |
| Україна — країна стартапів? У нас не вийде | Україна — країна стартапів? У нас не вийде
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Юрій Власюк, cпіворганізатор ярмарків Mini Maker Faire, у своїй статті розмірковує про те, що потрібно для розвитку стартап-спільноти в Україні.
Дуже сподобал... |
| Makerspace at Tennessee children’s hospital lets kids build a better hospital room | Thank you @littleBits for the gifts – the children at @VUMCchildren LOVED them. pic.twitter.com/PuEcN5Je2E
— Project M@CH (@ProjectMACH) August 16, 2014
Given the opportunity and the right tools to make a hospital stay less uncomfortable an... |
