The new Handibot, from ShopBot Tools. A major manufacturer of CNC routers today launched what it hopes will be “a whole new class of digital tool” called the Handibot. The announcement was made at the Hardware Innovation Workshop, underway in San Mateo, Calif. ShopBot CEO Ted Hall introduces the Handibot at Wednesday’s Hardware Innovation Workshop. It [...]

One of Maker Faire‘s newest Blacksmith Sponsors is HAXLR8R, a hardware startup incubator based of both San Francisco and Shenzhen, China. Now in its second year, HAXLR8R takes promising startups to China to jumpstart their innovative hardware companies. HAXLR8R’s latest batch of startups and the incubator itself (currently accepting applications for next year) will be [...]

Screws and screwdrivers might not seem like the most exciting topic on its face, but you could write a book on their uses and intricacies. There are so many tricks on how to use this type of hardware and their respective tools, and I’ve chosen ten that I hope will help you with future projects. [...]

Oakland, Calif.-based artist collective Five Ton Crane is in the business of bringing fiction into reality through their incredible, large-scale installations. Two years ago, the centerpiece of Maker Faire Bay Area was their sci-fi-influenced 41-foot-tall Raygun Gothic Rocketship, complete with an immersive environment that spanned three habitable decks full of ships systems and alien specimens. [...]

In each bi-monthly episode of DiResta (every other Wednesday at 2pm PT), artist and master builder Jimmy DiResta (Dirty Money, Hammered, Against the Grain, Trash for Cash) lets us into his workshop, to look over his shoulder while he builds whatever strikes his fancy. On this episode of DiResta, Jimmy shows us more of his band saw skills [...]

Eric Klein (Lemnos Labs) moderates a panel of five hardware venture capitalists. What’s a Venture Capitalist Look Like? Makers have mixed opinions on venture capitalists (VCs)  fueled by stories of entrepreneurs who lost control of the companies they built when they traded autonomy for capital. While projects are getting off the ground with crowd sourcing [...]

Today’s great line-up of speakers at the second and final day of the Hardware Innovation Workshop let fly a flurry of great tweets. Here is but a sampling of the buzz: Bilal Ghalib ‏@bilalghalib34m Protip. The very core of your crowd funding campaign is your authenticity. Focus on social capital #makeHIW http://instagram.com/p/ZWX3ZIR5A3/  Rachel Kalmar ‏@grapealope36m Crowdfunding is [...]

The Viper was one of the most popular projects at Maker Faire Bay Area last year, blowing minds, creating smiles, and eliciting screams of excitement. Isaac Clarke from Dead Space even approves (rad handmade costume by Shawn Thorsson pictured above). The Viper is a full-motion Battlestar Galactica-themed flight simulator built into the fuselage of a [...]

MAKE’s Dale Dougherty address the crowd at the Hardware Innovation Workshop. Hardware is hard, the quip goes, but there’s never been a better time to be prototyping and launching hardware projects than right now. That seemed to be the consensus today as the second and final day of MAKE’s Hardware Innovation Workshop wrapped up. The all-day [...]

Pensa is an eight-member NY-based design consultancy founded in 2005 by Marco Perry and Kathy Larchian. They’ve done product design work with major brands like OXO and Samsung mobile, and first appeared on our radar back in May of last year, when they first announced plans to develop a low-cost, open-source, maker-friendly version of the [...]

You think hackerspaces are all about Arduinos and 3D printers? Guess again! i3Detroit is holding a Bob Ross Paint Along class, where you can learn how to paint like the mighty Bob Ross of “Joy of Painting” fame: The late Bob Ross left a legacy of artistic genius and inspiration. Revolutionary paint-along tutorials such as [...]

Instructables user SarahandDillon made a differential light meter with a TL082 op amp; it compares the readings of two photo sensors. This works in the exact same way as the improved transimpedance amplifier, except that the current flowing out of Vout, through the resistor/capacitor barrier, to V- is now the sum of the two photodiode [...]