GizmoSphere recently released Gizmo DIY Board information actually making it open source and adding one competitor to the Open Source PC race. This is also compatible with Windows 8. Here you can find an UPDATED Gizmo vs. Minnow chart. via GizmoSphere DIY Board – Build Your Own | GizmoSphere.
Starting today, existing projects that do not have any downloads and all new projects will not have the ability to create downloads. Existing projects with downloads will see no visible changes until January 14, 2014 and will no longer have the ability to create new downloads starting on January 15, 2014. All existing downloads in…
Espruino is a small computer with a JavaScript interpreter that you can use to experiment. It’s open source (sw+hw) so it would be great if you want to support this very beautiful idea. What makes it stand out from other boards? Write code using the extremely popular JavaScript language You can be writing code just…
Technologies yesterday available only to research labs and industry turn your iPhone, tablet or PC into an amazing instrument. …and it’s open source! Red Pitaya is an open source measurement and control tool replacing many expensive laboratory instruments at a surprising price tag. Red Pitaya: Open instruments for everyone by Red Pitaya — Kickstarter.
Finally, the Makerbot Digitizer has come to light! Great job from Makerbot – even if, unfortunately not open source 🙁 If you don’t know, our Open Electronics friend Jeremy Blum actually worked in the team With just two clicks, the MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner’s simple yet sophisticated software creates clean, watertight 3D models that…
OSHWA is looking for 5 new faces to join the board of directors for the Open Source Hardware Association. Please fill out this form to become a nominee or forward the link to the person you wish to nominate for them to fill out. The purpose of this form will be to tell voting members a…
For those that are lucky to be there! 9th annual international fab lab forum: Fab9JAPAN.
Why did we start this project? We believe fixing is a valuable creative and social resource and we now know that people all over the world feel the same. Fixperts creates content that encourages people to use the power of fixing to solve everyday problems and that’s awesome. Is there a vision? We want everyone…
Nice initiative! (Despite Leap Motion is not open source) The Leap is an incredible new motion-tracking device from Leap Motion. It tracks movements up to 10 µm (!) in 8 cubic feet of 3D space. OpenLeap is a community of open-source enthusiasts making software for this wonderful device. Started by Owen Versteeg as an open-source…
This is surely one of the most interesting news in automotive hacking so far: thanks to Ford’ss OpenXC opensource innovation ecosystem, here’s what you can get! “Harnessing the power of Ford’s open-source platform OpenXC, 3D printing, Bluetooth and a Xbox 360, one of the Detroit automobile manufacturer’s engineers has created a manual shift gear knob…
We Are Makers tells the story of the Maker Movement. It’s the story not of tools but of people. A publisher. An entrepreneur. A design professor. A middle school teacher. Two museum educators. And a creative director. Each provides an important viewpoint on why new technologies and communities of making are bringing us back to…
A very useful recap by Mathilde Berchon on Making Society: Many entrepreneurs are seeing opportunities in 3D printing marketplaces. Offering a service to amateur designers for selling their 3D files seem to be the big deal. For now, market size is very questionable but as a 3D designer you might want to give it a…
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