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 […]
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. […]
So you’ve designed a plethora of cool DIY Maker projects with Atmel-based Arduino boards. Want to take the next step with stand-alone Atmel AVR microcontrollers (MCUs)? Written by Elliot Williams, Make: AVR Programming will help you discover how the AVR’s built-in hardware peripherals can be harnessed to solve various design issues, allowing Makers and engineers to […]
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 […]
Writing for FastCoLabs, Natalia Rodriguez says the Atmel-powered Arduino is to Makers what Hobby Lobby is to arts and crafts – the primary supplier for the components and little hardware boards used for inventive DIYs. Indeed, over the span of three months, 42 million visits to the official Arduino website originated from recurring users. According […]
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 […]
The official Arduino blog describes Afrimakers as an initiative “born to inspire young African Makers and plant the seed of local change through social entrepreneurship, digital fabrication and regional collaboration.” Afrimakers is backed by HacKIDemia, which recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to help create Maker workshops focused on local challenges in 7 key […]
