Domekit, is an open-source, parametric software tools and self-adjusting connector systems for making geodesic structures of human-scale proportion. It’s open source and has been founded on kickstarter. Enjoy! domekit.cc — domes for all by EFFALO — Kickstarter.
The goal is to build a small car with very low petrol consumption. With 1 litre of petrol (or its equivalent in diesel or ethanol) cover the distance of 100 kms with a prototype built especialy for this endurance event. The vehicle must have a minimum weight of 225 kg. Each team is given full scope to express their…
In 1820, Johann Schweigger invented the galvanometer – the first tool used to detect and measure electrical currents – considered by many as the first sensor in the world. This year Texas Intruments proposes a revolutionary technology that can equally be used to implement any type of sensor, from those of movement, rotation and displacement,…
Amazing news: Github is digging more and more into 3D designs: Back in April, we introduced the 3D file viewer. Today we’re improving this by displaying diffs of STL files on GitHub. There are two modes to figure out what you’re looking at. By default, we select “Highlight”, a mode that highlights the removed parts…
SpiderFab technology from Tethers Unlimited will enable on-orbit fabrication: TUI is currently developing a revolutionary suite of technologies called “SpiderFab” to enable on-orbit fabrication ofof large spacecraft components such as antennas, solar panels, trusses, and other multifunctional structures. SpiderFab provides order-of-magnitude packing- and mass- efficiency improvements over current deployable structures and enables construction of kilometer-scale…
Making Living Sharing – by Jens Dyvik, is a documentary about the fabber/maker community. An incredible video that was released during the Fab9 in Yokohama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7h3dfTcHDE
From the OSHWA Blog: New board members are: Gabriella Levin, David Mellis, Star Simpson, Jeffery Warren, and Emile Petrone. Click here to see the data. Thank you to all who participated in nominations Welcome New OSHWA Board Members! For those non familiar with the new nominees: Gabriella Levin now working with Protei David Mellis MIT fellow…
Zcapture a 360° product photography, open source hardware, with powerful processing software is raising money on kickstarter: may be useful for those of you that create products! My goal with Zcapture is to provide a low-cost, high-quality product that can be modified, hacked or customized to fit individual needs. We believe this product should be…
A very interesting project has been funded on Kickstarter: Meet LEDgoes. It’s the simplest, most versatile, least expensive LED Matrix Display system that exists today, with useful features for all experience levels with electronics. And the software & hardware will be Open Sourced upon successful funding! You can stack or arrange up to 64 Displayboards…
Despite the Indiegogo Campaign has a challenging target, the Dimbody project seems really great and god only knows how much do we need an open source 3D scanner for the masses. DIMBODY is a 3d scanner, a digitalizer tha allows you to take a physical object, and turn it into a digital 3D model on your computer….
Maker Plane wants to give you a high quality, reasonable cost plane using advanced personal manufacturing equipment such as CNC mills and 3D printers: MakerPlane Vision “We want more people to safely and quickly build and fly their own airplanes.” MakerPlane Project Overview MakerPlane is an open source aviation organization which will enable people to…
ReUSE Project: Development of a 90% Recyclable Printed Circuit Assembly via ReUSE – YouTube.
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