Here comes the third post regarding our amazing OpenWheels: the Segway inspired open source and DIY two-wheels vehicle. For those who stumble upon this post for the first time, please check the launch here and the whole list here: https://oe2.open-electronics.org/tag/openwheels/ With this post we get more into the specifics of Openwheels and we’ll talk extensively about the electronics…
[youtube id=”WMfVr5Jlt_E” width=”620″ height=”360″] Openwheels is fun! See me (Boris Landoni) happily driving the OpenWheels at Rome Maker Faire 2013 Here comes the second post regarding our amazing OpenWheels: the Segway inspired open source and DIY two-wheels vehicle. For those who stumble upon this post for the first time, please check the launch post here….
(This is the second post of the OpenWheels series. See all the posts by clicking here) As you may know, the invention of the SegWay is due to Mr. Dean Kamen who, noting the difficulties faced by a man in a wheelchair in just climbing a sidewalk, spotted the possibility of a vehicle that…
When I went to visit Maker Faire Rome earlier in 2013, in October, I stumbled upon an amazing project that caught my eye. It maybe was for the bright colours of for the stylish design, these small, (as big as a washing machine) greenhouses just grabbed my interest. I wasn’t surprised then, when just few…
Spotted on kickstarter, this hackable, Arduino compatible, robot seems pretty cool. A friendly, hackable, Arduino™ compatible robot. Perfect for any aspiring evil genius creating their own open-source robot army. A hackable, Arduino™ compatible, good looking robot that will transform the way you learn, play and experiment with mobile machines and a perfect starting point for…
This Solarpad solar phone charger project is pretty amazing and it’s open source! A fully charged Power Core will recharge a dead iPhone from 0% to 100% in 3 hours even after being unused for a month! Our competitors may have a power level indicator, but for this size solar charger, power level indicators are inaccurate…
Another 100% Open Source camera is coming up: we really think that Open Source photography is the next big thing in open source! Lux is a work of beauty. This velvet looking camera is a has a waist level viewfinder and it shoots 120 film. Made by Kevin Kadooka it is 100% open source with everything up for improvement…
O’Reilly Media launches a new DIYBio newsletter: “Biology in 2013 feels like computing in 1975 (just before the PC)—ripe for an explosion,” explains O’Reilly editor Mike Loukides, who spearheaded the creation of BioCoder. The newsletter aims to connect the scientists behind community and home laboratories that are springing up on every continent except Antarctica. It will…
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…
The Eyewriter Project Hardware guides on Instructables: http://www.instructables.com/id/The-EyeWriter-20/ The goal of the hardware component of the EyeWriter project is to make the most simple and inexpensive eye-tracking headset possible to use with the EyeWriter software. And Open Source Software The EyeWriter software is two parts — an eye-tracking software designed for use with our…
Hangin around the web we stumbled upont this! via Embroidered Fabric Speaker.
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