Sander Arts (@Sander1Arts), VP of Corporate Marketing at Atmel, visited the Beijing Makerspace on Monday, March 31, 2014. After participating in a well-attended press event, Arts met a number of journalists, tinkerers and entrepreneurs to discuss Atmel’s place at the heart of the rapidly growing global Maker Movement. According to Beijing Makerspace co-founder Justin Wang […]
Maker Faire will be back in the Bay Area to celebrate the “Year of the Maker” at the San Mateo Event Center on May 17th (Saturday) and May 18th (Sunday), 2014. Doors open at 10am, with the show running until early evening (8pm). As we’ve previously discussed on Bits & Pieces, the Maker movement has reached […]
Writing for OpenSource.com, Luis Ibanez offers a succinct review of “Makers: The New Industrial Revolution” by Chris Anderson. As Ibanez notes, Anderson is a former Editor in Chief of Wired and no stranger to the economic paradoxes of peer-production and open source. He is also the CEO and co-founder of 3D Robotics, a company dedicated […]
Writing for the EE Times, Junko Yoshida says local culture in Shenzhen is rapidly changing, with a growing number of hi-tech workers reportedly joining the rapidly growing Maker Movement (chuang ke). Indeed, RPTechWorks founder Yang Yango told Yoshida that “labor intensive” Shenzhen will eventually become a city known for fast prototyping with “shortened development” cycles. […]
Reza Kazerounian, Senior VP and GM of the Microcontroller Business Unit at Atmel, recently sat down with the folks at EEWeb to discuss a wide range of topics including the Maker Movement, the rapidly evolving Internet of Things (IoT) and the future of Atmel’s MCU business. As Kazerounian notes, the IoT is a combination of multiple […]
The Obama Administration has announced that the White House will be hosting its very first Maker Faire later this year. According to administration officials Tom Kalil and Jason Miller, the event will be an opportunity to highlight both the remarkable stories of Makers and commitments by leading organizations to help more students and entrepreneurs get […]
Atmel MCU Applications Manager Bob Martin recently went on camera in Las Vegas to discuss the evolution of CES over the years, with a specific emphasis on the Maker Movement and DIY community. As we’ve previously discussed on Bits & Pieces, Atmel’s 8- and 32-bit microcontrollers have been the MCUs of choice for Arduino since the […]
Writing for Forbes, TechShop CEO Mark Hatch confirms the rapidly growing Maker Movement is having a “surprising” impact in the United States and around the world. “Though a more complex topic, the Maker Movement can be reduced to this simple reality: it is democratizing making,” Hatch explained. “Sure, making includes simple electronics, quilting, all the […]
OpenBCI – designed by Joel Murphy & Conor Russomanno – is a low-cost programmable open-source EEG platform that gives Makers easy access to their brainwaves. “Our vision is to realize the potential of the open-source movement to accelerate innovation in brain science through collaborative hardware and software development,” the duo wrote in a recent Kickstarter […]
Adam Wolf is a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University who studies how different types of plants respond to changes in water availability. From Modeler to Maker, Wolf once relied on mathematical models to predict how plants grow, but soon realized this paradigm was mostly “agnostic to species.” According to Ben Millstein of the official MakerBot […]
