I should have written this report on Monday last but I was so tired after four days in Rome at the Maker Faire, and with so many things to talk about, that I decided to have a few days off. Which was a stroke of luck because some of questions I wanted to ask the…
Maker Faire Rome was a blast. More than thirty thousands people visited the show and wandered around the stands. Since I was there to cover the “ReMake the World” conference in day one and the “Business of Making” event on day two, I was completely short in time availability but, at some point, I just…
In the last few years we saw an increasing awareness about open hardware (OH) projects, now starting to have an impact on the startup community and academia – as more and more projects under CC licenses try to involve the crowd in improving designs and applications – and even mainstream media now finally starting to cover the…
Missed Day1 “How To ReMake the World” Conference? Read our First Day Recap! Despite the second day of the Rome Maker Faire was mainly the day of Schools (incredible to see the huge number of boys and girls wandering around the stands), afternoon’s faire program featured the Tech Garage event, where a huge number of startups pitched in front…
Here’s a complete writeup of what happened yesterday 3/10 at Rome Maker Faire. Overall it was a great show with I think more than 1000 attendees (during weekday, in Italy, it’s pretty huge) attended an overcrowded Palazzo dei Congressi in Rome’s EUR, the neighborhood that is the best expression of Fascist era architecture. In this…
As you would have probably noticed, the open hardware industry is gaining traction and relevant opportunities are showing up. According to a recent survey from Element 14: • More than half (56%) of professional engineers are more likely to use open source hardware such as Arduino and BeagleBone in 2013. Among hobbyists, that figure jumps…
As you probably know, just in few days, the first Maker Faire European Edition will be held in Rome, Italy and will gather thousands of makers and curious from all over the world. Further than participants, the Maker Faire will see speakers like Mark Frauenfelder, David John Gauntlett, Raffaello D’Andrea, Dale Dougherty and many…
After some time now, the Open Hardware Ecosystem and Business sector gained some significant traction. An excellent presentation by Mathilde Berchon was recently release at the open hardware summit, trying to summarize the increasingly interesting diversity and numbers of the OSHW business. Here’s some interesting passage in the talk: The number of open hardware startups…
Everything Open Source Hardware The Open Source hardware and design community is on fire these days. Apart from the projects that eventually already gained worldwide recognition such as Open Source Ecology, DIYDrones, Arduino or RepRap, many fantastic projects, focused on specific aspects, hold great promises. In the last couple of years, in fact, we have…
Today we present an overview of today’s market offering regarding ARM RISC microcomputer able to run a GNU/Linux distribution. And once again, this is just the beginning. While the growth of such a device segment was predictable, it wasn’t easy to predict such an explosion. In fact we now have an heterogeneous set of…
It’s always tricky when you create something: a complex project, a commercial product or just an hack and then you must decide what license you should use for that, for releasing it to the public. The discussion regarding licensing open electronics or hardware in general has been carried on for years now, and many points…
Lately, many entrepreneurs are switching their attention from the traditional software and web market towards the very promising hardware market. A growing access and a growing ecosystem of startups and bigger companies are, in fact, starting to reach that tipping point in which you have products and services growing on several of layers and eventually…
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