Consumer
For the Professional Maker: Make your product a Maker Faire success - Other
July 14, 2016As a MakerPro, if you have a product or service to offer, Maker Faires can be a natural fit for promotion. Though they vary greatly in size and audien...
Processing
Here's how to build multiples of your design - Blog
June 10, 2016As a MakerPro, you likely sometimes produce things for your own use or entertainment. However, you usually have ideas that are good enough to share wi...
Industrial
Use pneumatics to supercharge your next project - Other
May 12, 2016Air-powered, or pneumatic, machinery has long been a staple of automated manufacturing. Able to deliver an incredible amount of force at a high speed,...
Open Source
Many attempts before DIY perfection - Other
May 09, 2016About three years ago, I was introduced to something called a StrandBeest. This mechanism, which can be translated from Dutch as beach monster, involv...
Open Source
Raspberry Pi and Arduino in industrial applications - Other
April 28, 2016When I think of the term MakerPro, I think of someone who has established his own business based on being extremely good at what people most consider...
Consumer
It can be a scary world out there - Other
April 25, 2016In March of this year, I quit my engineering job at a medium-sized company to work for myself as a technical writer and consultant. People sometimes c...
Processing
Passion turns into sales - Other
April 13, 2016Lots of people have ideas for new inventions or devices. In my case, I've found that most of them aren't really viable, but a few could be commerciall...
Industrial
Design machine vision into your embedded system - Other
April 06, 2016Machine vision systems from companies like Cognex, Keyence, Banner, and others are used to check the quality of parts that an assembly line produces....
Software & OS
MakerPros: You probably started life programming PLCs - Other
March 22, 2016In 2004, I graduated with a mechanical engineering degree, and, like most of my classmates, knew a bit of programming, mostly using BASIC and MATLAB....