For something intended to mimic good old pencil and paper, drawing tablets and the tech behind them are surprisingly complicated. If you fancy a crash course in how they work and want to build your ...

Who hasn’t worked on a project that went nowhere or got canceled? Sometimes the project deserves it because it was ill-conceived or poorly executed. Sometimes markets moved or there wasn’t really a ...

Editor’s note: Matt Witheiler is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. You can follow him on his blog. In the past six years crowdfunding has become a popular, if not the most popular, form ...

In the early days, crowdfunding was perceived as a threat to the traditional venture capital model of funding startups. But time has shown that crowdfunding sites can be more helpful than harmful: In ...

Today at the Open Hardware Summit at MIT, OSHWA, the Open Source Hardware Association has announced a huge revision to the Open Hardware certification process. The goal here is to design a better ...

No one doubts that microcontrollers and embedded hardware boards are more popular than ever. Popular too are a growing stable of low-cost hardware add-ons: Sensors, “piggyback” expansion boards, ...

Project Ara lets customers keep their old phone and upgrade its parts. Oct. 29, 2013— -- Back in June, Samsung announced it was releasing three new models of their Galaxy S4 phone. But those that ...

For over a decade, the Raspberry Pi has been the go-to for a variety of creative projects, as it allows you to get started from a blank canvas. It costs about as much as a night out, yet it's powerful ...

Right now, we’re running the greatest hardware competition on the planet. The Hackaday Prize is the Academy Awards of Open Hardware, and we’re opening the gates to thousands of hardware hackers, ...

It’s no secret that Meta is eager to prove itself as an AI company, and it might be eyeing a new hardware project to help it get there. The company is in the early stages of “exploring” designs for AI ...