SAN MATEO, Calif.—The Maker movement has exploded thanks to forces like open system software and hardware and accessible, affordable components and design tools. Now, the great minds behind Arduino have just added a new item to makers’ innovation tool…

The Bay Area Maker Faire is just around the corner, but I find myself casting my mind back to something eye-opening I saw at this year’s Embedded World conference in Nuremburg this February.

BeagleCore were showing an industrialized SoM version of…

What’s better than a bio-inspired, crawling robot? A spider bot that you can build yourself, that’s what. Locomotion mimicking nature has been around for a little while, but up until now has only been available to university researchers. That’s all going…

A few months ago, Norwegian sensor developer Novelda unveiled a pair of adaptive Atmel | SMART ATSAM4E16E powered sensor modules capable of monitoring human presence, respiration and other vital information in real-time. Based on the company’s

Do you recall what you were doing back in the summer of fourth grade? Chances are you weren’t creating a programmable, Arduino-based smartwatch like eight-year-old Maker Omkar Govil-Nair, let alone starting your own business.

The O Watch is built…

With all the buzz around crowdfunding new hardware and after meeting some of the founders of these startups I thought it wise to talk to someone who has literally written a book on electronic products design, John Teel.  John comes from the world…

PubNub's Ian Jennings demonstrates how to connect your Arduino to a mobile cellular network with a GSM/GPRS shield.

There's a ton of tutorials out there on hooking your Arduino up to the LAN, whether it be Wi-Fi, an Ethernet, or other. But what about…

There was so much I wanted to share about my one day at Maker Faire that I needed to write two blogs. My first thoughts are in My First Maker Faire: Engineers and Kids at Play.

Massimo launching the Arduino Zero

While my son played on an iPad, I joined…

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