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 ...

Kickstarter has joined with Avnet and Dragon Innovation to support hardware creators on its crowdfunding platform. Under the initiative, Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Kickstarter will help prepare creators for ...

In a great example of what can happen when smart, technically-oriented people come together in a time of need, an open-source hardware project started by a group including Irish entrepreneur Colin ...

As Google gets ready to ship the Lego-like Project Ara smartphone later this year, the company wants to ensure relevant hardware is available to coincide with the device’s release. This week Google ...

Microsoft has been a member of the Open Compute Project since 2014, donating many of the specifications for its Azure data centers to the project. It’s where Microsoft develops its Olympus servers and ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue University-led team is the winner of a new project to advance artificial intelligence hardware through the Microelectronics Commons program in collaboration with the ...