After releasing their first, and open source, stereolithographic 3D printer, the Ember, Autodesk announced the release of an open source resin for Ember printer and all the other compatible printers from makers all over the world. This is a clear and strong signal from Autodesk that is aiming first at trying to make 3D…
Upverter is a community hosting schematics, blueprints, bill of materials, very often also full layouts. Today they hit an incredible goal, read it directly from their annoucement: “This morning, our community has publicly shared over 32,000 open source hardware designs with the world. They span the full range of dev boards, power supplies, home automation,…
My impression is that this Autodesk strategic project potential just went a little underestimated: Autodesk is developing Project Wire, a Spark Powered design tool for creating 3D printable electronic devices. We have partnered with Voxel8 to enable the fabrication of truly freeform three-dimensional circuits for the first time. We believe future electronic devices will be…
Here we are, the 2015 is fresh starting and as usual it’s the right time to take stock of the past year. In this post, we’ll go through the main accomplishments done in 2014 about open source and as you will easily see, the past one has been a very productive and inspiring year! Let’s…
Autodesk is launching a massive 100 Million fund to spur innovation in 3d Printing industry: The Spark Investment Fund will invest in entrepreneurs, startups and researchers to push the boundaries of 3D printing technology and accelerate the new industrial revolution. Autodesk encourages companies and individuals developing groundbreaking hardware, software, materials, marketplaces and maker spaces to…
This wonderful project explores the borders between hacking, learning computers, hacking and electronics: it’s a kit you can hack and a learning course you can use to teach people how to create real hardware: Pi-Top provides a platform to expand your knowledge in hardware creation. The kit takes you through each of its components and…
Despite the amount of funding that is looking for is a bit challenging we encourage you to support this kids targeted project to create a “drag-and-drop 3D Computer Aided Design and modeling tool designed for use by elementary-age children”. It’s always great to see education related projects coming up on kickstarter. What is BlocksCAD? Imagine…
Days ago at MakerCon Autodesk, announced their yet-to-be-named “Autodesk 3D Printer.” According to Carl Bass, the design “will be made publicly available to allow for further development and experimentation.” in RepRapish style. We really look forward to understand more. That’s an interesting move. Also Spark API concept looks interesting: Spark is an open 3D printing software platform that sits…
Do you follow the work at 3DHubs? You should. This amazing dutch born startup is building a worldwide, peer to peer network of affiliated 3Dprinter owners that can help you print wherever your are. Since few weeks, our beloved 3Drag printer is shipping equipped with a flyer that will remind owners to register on 3D…
A new exciting PCB fabrication service: We’re very excited about the beta release of our new quoting and fabrication service for PCB projects. Our goal is to remove the time and frustration it takes to source, quote and fabricate PCBs so that you can spend your time designing instead of managing files and spreadsheets. CircuitHub…
Do you remember Red Pitaya? That one wasn’t open source hardware. This new product instead, choose to develop all the framework in the open: maybe worth your support! The world’s first 100MS/s open source oscilloscope for iPad, Android and PC. A must-have for every Arduino and Raspberry Pi developer! The SmartScope is an open source…
We are pretty used to open source boards but this is one of the few tools that are actually Open Souce: PCBGRIP is an electronics assembly system designed to make it easier to assemble and work on electronics. Completely customizable, with open source flexibility, it holds printed circuit boards (PCBs), components, stencils, and everything else…
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