Brisbane-based Cartesian co-founder and chief executive Ariel Briner said the day was coming when people could download the electronic circuits to build entire machines, print them, add any capacitors ...

There are a growing number of bargain-basement components for hobbyists who are using them in ever more creative ways. We wrote recently, for instance, about a home brewer who has created an ...

The advent of microcontroller modules like the Arduino opened up ability to build and program interactive objects to a whole generation of makers. Today these modules make it simple to control ...

Another startup aiming to simplify the process of prototyping electronics by doing away with the need to wire up breadboards has taken to Kickstarter. The ink AgIC is also developing can be used in a ...

This two-decade old blinkenlights project (YouTube link, and also below the break) would look at home among current $1 soldering kits except for a few key differences. Firstly, it has the teardown ...

Here’s something for the inner romantics and DIY circuit board assemblers in all of us. Yes, I’m talking to you, my friend; soldering iron in one hand, PCB board in the other, pining to tell your ...

Ever wanted to move Pac-Man using pencil drawings, make music with bananas or type an email with alphabet soup? Now you can thanks to Makey Makey, a simple circuit board that turns almost any object ...