Manufacturing never left America. Even during the recession, good people were still building good things. Recently, though, thanks to the maker movement, small-scale manufacturing is seeing a renaissa
Google is now selling its own Glass-compatible frames for prescription lenses, but they’ll set you back $225 a pair, lenses not included. That’s a bit steep, especially when you’ve a
Our favorite hacker in the world, Ladyada AKA Limor Fried, spent a good few minutes talking to President Obama in one of his famous Fireside Hang-outs. The video, above, features Ladyada and her pink
The $35/$25 Raspberry Pi microcomputer is being used by hardware hackers to power all sorts of creative projects. Including this Raspberry Pi powered laptop, which ties in the Motorola Atrix laptop do
The weekend isn't upon us just yet, but here's a little project to tuck away for when the Sunday doldrums set in -- the New York-based tinkerers/part suppliers at Adafruit Industries have worked up a
There's a long-held notion that China should be the go-to place for those in need of inexpensive manufactured products, but some prominent makers don't buy it. Our own John Biggs sat down with Adafrui
Recently consumer electronics have tended to be more about closing things down then opening them up, but New York-based Adafruit is working to help reverse that trend, and to make it so that people ar
We often give short shrift to hardware at Disrupt mostly because investors are afraid to look at companies that can't pivot without trashing 30 days of inventory. No longer. <a target="_blank" href="h
Adafruit, the DIY electronics website and marketplace, is espousing the popular strategy of "get em' young" with a new live action short video series broadcast on YouTube. The series, called Circuit P
While I don't often hold stock in random pronouncements by magazines, I'm shocked and thrilled that Entrepreneur Magazine named Limor Fried, founder of <a target="_blank" href="http://adafruit.com/">A
For your perusal: a Geiger counter made in the style of HR Giger. Why? Because this is the Internet and people do stuff for attention, that's why.
The creator, Steve D of Mad Art Lab, bought a real
CAT IS NOT FOR SALE Our good friend Phil Torrone sent us this list of cool homebrew deals on Chumby devices, Adafruit boards, and other goodness. Fist, you’ve got some Chumby-powered devices tha
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/PT_2789.jpg">Never ones to let any aluminum surface go unsullied, PT and <a HREF="http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2010/04/09/laser-etched-ip