DIY | Maker

Dave Rauchwerk, CEO of Next Thing Co., reveals that $9 CHIP computer is licensed as Creative Commons ShareAlike. That's just the beginning.

When I think about the world that we are now living, I have to (I literally must) think about open source technologies, open source frameworks and products such good that became excellent platforms to build your own distrupting software, or board. We are living the same situation with wearable devices, in such a way that I am inclined to think about all of this stuff and easily identify a cyclic, predictable behavior. Once a technology or a concept starts to become part of the traditional software (and hardware) stack, suddenly clones begin to appear; and there’s a strong chance that the first to appear (as the first clone, or even the original product) is open source. 

Alessio Biancalana, 02/05/2014

Thanks to 3-D printers and cheap prototyping, a new era of physical goods startups is here. Here's how to make the switch to hardware without running. afoul of rules ans backers.

Noah Dentzel, 07/02/2014

With sensors and microcontrollers as cheap as they are, the Internet of things is poised for support from the maker crowd