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From some time now. a group of amazing folks is trying to take over the risk of bee colony collapse. This is an important project, that deserves your support! PS: we a re wrangling with the idea to interview the team: stay tuned! The Open Source Beehives project wants to crowd-source a solution to the…
So we’re finally mature to see Open Source coming into new businesses. This move from Valcucine is really promising and shows another time that often smaller brands are smarter than industry behemoths. Valcucine and dotdotdot are making an open call-for-ideas around the theme of the ‘open source kitchen’. during milan design week 2014, the Valcucine…
Truly nice project! OpenPool completely changes billiard experience OpenPool allows you to play billiard with beautiful interactive visual effects. By adding a few pieces of devices, your existing billiard table turns into a futuristic gaming machine! OpenPool is open source. So not only can you play, but you can also create and add on your…
Open Source Hardware replica of the Enigma machine. Awesome. Imagine having this iconic device on your desk: You can use it to simply display a scrolling marquee of any text message on its unique LED screen or encrypt/decrypt any information you wish using (still today) a very secure key. This is an ideal device to…
A truly excellent prosthetic project from nationally financed project in Italy. It’s not clear whether or not this will be open sourced but as it’s financed with public money, for sure it should: LifeHand 2 aims to create a completely implantable prosthesis system, richly sensorized and crontrolled through the patient’s nervous system, with a dexterity comparable to a…
This amazing boy built an incredible Braille printer using only lego and an open source software: For those of you who thought baking soda volcanoes made for a pretty sweet science fair project, 12-year-old Shubham Bannerjee’s entry will absolutely blow you away. It’s an actual working braille printer that was built with about $350 worth…
Amazing instructable availalbe to build a Shop-In-A-Box I’ve built 2 off-grid, digital, open-source factories out of 20′ shipping containers, and I want to help others build their own. Shop-In-A-Box #001 operates in Bungoma, Kenya; #002 lives at American Steel in Oakland, CA. #002 travels: it’s been to Maker Faire (while under construction), The Gates Foundation Reinvent…
Interesting exploration of interaction design in music. Will be Open Source! An 8-inch wooden cube may be an unlikely spark for a musical revolution – but that’s the hope of a collaboration of electronic engineers and musicians working towards hackable electronic instruments that performers can easily modify to produce sounds in surprising new ways. Dr…
The DragonBox Pyra seems to be taking the heritage of OpenPandora (open source gaming console). Let’s stay tuned! It’s been a few years since a group of developers started working on an open source handheld gaming device called the OpenPandora. A lot’s changed since the original designs were drawn up, and now one of the…
That’s an amazing project: an open source Knitting Machine inspired by rep rap – as it seems. Digital fabrication of clothes is getting more and more near. OpenKnit is an open-source, low cost (under 550€), digital fabrication tool that affords the user the opportunity to create his own bespoke clothing from digital files. Starting from…
Still don’t get 100% of how it works but, from the video here it seems amazing! And it’s open source. Spotted on Wired! At first, the monome was meant be a multipurpose artistic tool: a simple, 100 percent open source design with buttons and lights that could be programmed to to create any kind of art,…
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