You’re invited: Facebook’s first-ever hardware hackathon

December 5, 2012 10:53 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Facebook’s Open Compute Project, a huge effort to create and promote open-source hardware, is hosting its first-ever hardware hackathon.

The hackathon will take place next month in Santa Clara, Calif., at the OCP’s Open Compute Summit. The hackathon’s goal is …

Get to hardware hacking from the comfort of your web browser with Circuits.io

October 11, 2012 10:11 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Two academically inclined tinkerers made this cool tool for hardware hackers to collaborate and share their designs free of charge.

Tech materials of the future (and how you can make them yourself)

May 16, 2012 1:13 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Flexible screens, wearable computers, conductive ink, wires that move like muscles: These are the materials that will make up the gadgets of the future, and they’re being dreamed up and developed in do-it-yourself hacker labs and garages all around the …