The European edition of Maker Faire just started today. It’s organised by InnovaCamera, a Special Agency of the Rome Chamber of Commerce, whose mission is to place the city of Rome at the centre of the debate on innovation, by spreading the digital culture, and developing the individual and collective entrepreneurship that is so integral to…
How to make an electronic business card that says something about you. For people working in the electronics business, especially for manufacturing companies of printed circuits, it is now fashionable to give away your business card engraved on a PCB. Starting from this idea, we went beyond and ask ourselves: “Since…
Automakers must strike the right balance between selling enough electrified vehicles (EVs) to comply with tightening regulatory fleet emissions and fuel economy targets. To compound matters, automakers cannot afford to lose focus on combustion engine models, which are often more profitable. Within this report, McKinsey is releasing new findings from a global survey on consumer…
According to to Phil Torrone, designer at Adafruit industries the market for open source hardware topped nearly $50million last and is heading towards 1B$ in 2015. This update was given at O’Reilly Foo Camp East in the beginning of May. Torrone also explained that we have 300 significant open source hardware projects in development now and that 13…
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…
Stratasys, global giant of industrial 3D printing, announced on Wednesday that it was to acquire MakerBot, [iframe_loader src=”http://new.livestream.com/accounts/1487850/events/2191165/videos/22030787/player?autoPlay=false&height=360&mute=false” height=”349″ width=”425″ ] An interesting move from the internationa giant: Makerbot gets eaten. Soon we’ll release an opinion post about this. Stay tuned! Press conference: Stratasys and MakerBot to Merge Stratasys acquires MakerBot as VCs discover key…
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