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: Cyril Ebersweiler is the founder and Benjamin Joffe is general partner of the hardware startup accelerator HAXLR8R (“HAX”). Both have been living in China and Asia for over a decade.

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 ...

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 our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...

Not every Pi project takes days to finish. Here are several you can complete in an hour or less, then immediately enjoy the ...

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 ...

Since its inception in November last year, Taiwan based HWTrek started out as a cross between a crowd-funding and a manufacturing advisory platform for hardware companies. But now, HWTrek is putting ...

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 ...

Kickstarter made it so that anybody with a great idea and a little know-how could make products and find customers. That's when the problems would start. It's one thing to make something for a few ...

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 ...