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Choose the Best Board for Wearables
RAS2025-07-11T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol. 91. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! There are plenty of boards to choose for your next wearable electronics project, and ultimately the best one is whichever fits your project’s unique constraints. To help narrow it down, here are five of the strongest contenders, plus a few that are too good to leave out.
LilyPad Arduino USB
Photo by SparkFun Get it on SparkFun LilyPad Arduino is the original...July 11, 2025RASUncategorizedAdafruit, Arduino, board guide, LilyPad Arduino, make91, Other Boards, Technology, Wearables0 Comments
Open Source Hardware Certifications for June 2025
RAS2025-07-08T16:00:00+00:00The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) runs a free program that allows creators to certify that their hardware complies with the community definition of open source hardware. Whenever you see the certification logo, you know that the certified hardware meets this standard. Currently the Certification database lists over 3064 individual certifications! In May we added 35 new certifications, from green houses to trackballs, and we were happy to have new and...
OSHWA Healthware Highlight: OpenNerve
RAS2025-07-02T16:00:00+00:00This piece is part of a highlight series on OSHWA.org. We started this series by looking at COSMIIC and you cannot talk about them without mentioning their sister project, OpenNerve developed by the Center for Autonomic Nerve Recording and Stimulation Systems (CARRS). OpenNerve is the other project supported by the National Institute of Health, the US-based government organization that funds medical research. Both projects were selected as part of the SPARC grant...
OSHWA Healthware Highlight: COSMIIC
RAS2025-06-24T16:00:00+00:00This piece is part of a highlight series on OSHWA.org. As we delve deeper into the world of open healthware we have been amazed at the sheer number of projects that are out there. Open source medical devices have been thriving in fields of research, and various distribution networks have been sharing open health hardware with the world. One of the biggest things we want to make clear in our investigations is that this field is not new. OSHWA...
Review: Elephant Robotics myAGV
RAS2025-06-13T16:00:00+00:00This article appeared in Make: Vol 93. Subscribe for more great articles. Manufacturer: Elephant Robotics Price: from $949 ($1,299 as tested; $1,748 above) While humanoids may soon be within reach of students and hobbyists, the classic four-wheel ‘bot is still the ideal base for learning, both literally and metaphorically. Elephant Robotics are established leaders in the area of robotic arms, and have developed an automated ground vehicle, myAGV, in...
Open Source Hardware Certifications for May 2025
RAS2025-06-06T16:00:00+00:00The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) runs a free program that allows creators to certify that their hardware complies with the community definition of open source hardware. Whenever you see the certification logo, you know that the certified hardware meets this standard. Currently the Certification database lists over 3029 individual certifications! In May we added 18 new certifications, from prosthetics to mist makers, and we were happy to have new and recurring names show up!...
Boards Guide 2025: AI at the Edge
RAS2025-06-02T16:00:00+00:00Raspberry Pi 5
CPU: Broadcom BCM2712 quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 @ 2.4GHz GPU: VideoCore VII @ 1GHz RAM: 2, 4, or 8GB Flash: Your own SD card or SSD This article appeared in Make: Vol. 91. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! The Raspberry Pi 5 is an accessible, low-cost single-board computer ideal for edge AI applications. It offers a powerful CPU and the ability to run full versions of machine learning frameworks like...June 2, 2025RASUncategorizedArduino, board guide, make91, nvidia, Other Boards, raspberry pi, Seeed Studio, Technology0 Comments
Homework Machine Saves Time, Possibly
RAS2025-05-31T16:00:23+00:00It’s been said that computers make great teachers because they’re so dumb, they force you to think harder.1 That’s definitely true in the case of this automatic homework machine by Devadath PR of Thrissur, Kerala, India, which uses a CoreXY plotter and clever programming to convincingly forge the answers. Fed up at 15 with an educational system that felt heavy on rote memorization but low on critical thinking, Devadath began building a machine to do the boring...
The High and Low Tech Behind the Displays of Tomorrow
RAS2025-05-23T16:00:00+00:00Display Week was May 11–16, and the expo floor was filled with the technology of tomorrow and the e-waste of next week. I expected a lot of monitors and was surprised to learn how many things qualify as a screen. There are big screens, tiny screens, screens so small you need a microscope, and screens bigger than some murals. There were thin ones, bendy ones, and undulating ones. So there were a lot. After a while,...
