The Arduino team, known for providing various electronic and microcontroller components for do-it-yourself electronic hobbyists since 2005, has announced its new product, the Plug and Make Kit.

John Boxall, author of the new book Arduino Workshop, shares a few of the projects from his book on how to get started with the microcontroller. (Click the links to see PDFs of the complete ...

"Autodesk works with a large and passionate community of electronics-focused users, with over 2,000 Instructables leveraging Arduino and circuitry-based projects on Instructables.com." ...

Another national organization, Maker Corps, has begun training 18- to 22-year-olds to become mentors to kids and young teenagers both online and in physical makerspaces.

Big vendors are infiltrating the maker movement, tapping its creative minds to build the Internet of things -- with ridiculously low-cost prototyping kits, cloud services, and dev environments ...