The announcement all of us were waiting for! We’re thrilled to announce that Kickstarter is now available to creators in five more European countries: Austria, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. Starting today, artists, inventors, designers, and makers of all types can launch projects on Kickstarter and share them with our global community. People from all…
We recently discovered this nice DIY Film Dryer created by the designer Andrea Signoretto, prototyped already and made with the support of the Muse FabLab in Trento (Italy), visual and editing realized by #Inspiredby media. Its creator developed a low-cost drying process for photo negatives for analog cameras lovers: it reduces the costs in a quick…
3D Racers is a fully customizable racing game with mobile app and Open Hardware from italy.For those not familiar with 3D Printing, 3D Hubs is partnering with the project to provide a 3D service included (which says a lot of the future of 3DHubs as as service also). The project looks really awesome and –…
The famous Italian FABTOTUM printer is about to hit the desktop of its early bird adopters. This pretty cool project may be useful to understand the advancements > Behind the scenes: Production Facility | FABtotum. In the meantime we can suggest you a couple more interesting posts from that blog. Especially this on Interaction design, and this…
An italian team reacently launched this interesting initiative: The Open Biomedical Initiative is a newly established nonprofit organization with the purpose of creating and promoting Low-Cost, Open Source, 3D Printable Biomedical Technologies. It was founded by Bruno Lenzi (electronics/biomedical engineer, Founder) and Cristian Padovano (biotechnologist, Co-Founder). Will a “team of engineers, doctors, biotechnologists, makers, enthusiasts,…
A truly interesting contest, launched by a group of Italian companies working with Making and Design: “3DPRINTforAID” project has been set up bearing in mind that the spread of 3D printing technologies will lead to a third or fourth “industrial revolution”. 3D printing is now taken seriously by manufacturers as an alternative to cutting, bending, pressing…
A very interesting opportunity for European and Worldwide makers. Italian Foundation Make in Italy launched a contest with mentorship program: Make in Italy association, in collaboration with amdLP and ISHEO, launches the first Maker Contest to source unrivalled “Health and Quantified Self” hardware ideas. The aim of the contest is to extract innovative ideas focusing on…
A truly excellent prosthetic project from nationally financed project in Italy. It’s not clear whether or not this will be open sourced but as it’s financed with public money, for sure it should: LifeHand 2 aims to create a completely implantable prosthesis system, richly sensorized and crontrolled through the patient’s nervous system, with a dexterity comparable to a…
Another clever italian idea: these guys are crowdfunding their way to create the first segmented filament for 3d printing! THE IDEA StickFilament is a new filament system designed for FFF 3D printers. This system doesn’t aims to replace the spool, but to implement the traditional system in order to increase the range of available colors…
Futura Elettronica, Open Electronics mothership, is now official Italian Distributor of RaspberryPI, after reaching an agreement with RS Components. Italian followers of Open Electronics can check the huge inventory of products that Futura sports on its web shop. Futura Elettronica is the italian leader in distribution of electronics and editor of the well known italian magazine…
Italian Open Source Vehicle Tabby got showcased on Businessweek earlier this month. Remember there’s an upcoming interview with the guys! Tabby is the car that can be assembled by customers intheir own garage, in less than one hour. And it can cost less than 6 thousand euros, engine included. Bloomberg’s Tom Gibson reports. via The…
Another groundbreaking Italian project in 3Dprinting (seen at Rome Maker Faire). Our mission is to reutilize the waste material resulting from the marbles production process. Sludge and waste are a consequence of the production system, this marble dust is complex and expensive to dispose of. But if mixed with special resins and catalysed with UV…
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