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Hardware Innovation Workshop
Do we really need more gatherings for people to talk about innovation? Yes. Yes we do. Make Magazine is hosting a bunch of people to talk about, “shaping the future of manufacturing and the global...
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TinkerForge – An Interview With The Creators
When you don’t want to fight with low-level syntax you use a high-level programming language. What if that concept was applied to hardware? TinkerForge is, to oversimplify, a group of modular circuit...
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Apertus, Open Source Cinema
The goal of the Apertus project is to create a powerful, free (in terms of liberty) and open cinema camera that we as filmmakers love to use. That’s the vision of Apertus, which has a significant...
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MAKE Magazine Interviews Alicia Gibb of the Open Source Hardware Association
MAKE’s interview with Alicia Gibb, President of the Open Source Hardware Association, is well worth a read. Why does open source hardware need an Open Source Hardware Association? There are a lot of...
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Make Magazine Is Planning The “Ultimate 3D Printer Shootout” Issue
If any single publication can claim to represent the maker movement, I suppose Make Magazine is it. John Abella says they are working on a massive guide to 15 hobby-level 3D printers, to be released in...
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Science Enabled By Open Source Hardware
Science is a good match for the open source philosophy. Because… it tries to do things for little-to-no money it doesn’t care if equipment is pretty it is only focused on results it needs things that...
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Makerbot Might Be Going Closed Source
When I saw the Replicator 2, and Makerbot’s slick new marketing, and the glaring lack of ANY reference to providing the design files, I asked the question. So did a lot of other people, including Josef...
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The Definitive Makerbot Open vs Closed Source Discussion
I did my best to document all the different points of view that are relevant to the open source hardware world but are spread all over the interwebs. The original Makerbot founders. This post got big,...
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Lots Of Links
Here are a lot of links I think are relevant to open hardware. The first is that apparently RepRap has its own magazine now! Zero Cost Modeling of Space Frames – Julian Edgar demonstrates how to...
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