The 3D printing revolution has come, and it’s time for 3D scanning to follow. The CowTech Ciclop is a RepRap 3D scanner with a large scan volume, simple, yet elegant design, and a disruptive price point that blows any other laser scanner out of the water. The user prints the plastic parts on their own…
We have been hard at work for 2 years perfecting the case, reinventing mechanics, re-engineering micro-chips, and discovering a completely new line of materials called Daylight Resins. This amazing portable 3D resin printer, that uses your smartphone as projector and guarantees a really high definition printing output. Filippo Moroni opens the Kickstarter campaign and gathers…
The ZeroBorg is a new add on board for controlling motors using the incredible $5 computer Raspberry Pi Zero. The project has already hit the 300% funding on Kickstarter in less than 10 days. A Raspberry Pi Zero, ZeroBorg and a 9V battery weigh as little as 65g! The ZeroBorg can control 4 motors independently…
That is not a strictly open source project, but it is too inspiring not to be shared. And, apart from being funded by Randi Zuckerberg and Massimo Banzi, Cubotto got 187% funding on Kickstarter just after 4 days… Cubetto is a coding toy for girls and boys. Powered by a tangible programming language. It’s super…
LattePanda is featured with quad-core 1.8Ghz, 2/4G RAM, 32/64 GB eMMC, WIFI, Bluetooth 4.0 and USB 3.0, plus onboard Arduino processor. LattePanda comes pre-installed with a full edition of Windows 10, including powerful tools such as Visual Studio, NodeJS, Java, Processing, and more! The project has been successfully funded on Kickstarter gathering more than £442K…
Wearables are one of the main technological trends nowadays and we were wondering when someone would have proposed a solution for our beloved pets. Our friend Jared Marmen from Baltimore, founder of Barttron Inc. published a really interesting project on Kickstarter! Chord is a smart collar for dogs and cats that allows you to create…
Open Flight Solution opened a Kickstarter campaign about its new ADS-B product and reached nearly the 200% funding in few days. If you’re a pilot, chances are pretty good that you’ve heard about ADS-B. You probably know that an ADS-B receiver can make flying safer and more efficient by providing real-time weather, traffic, TFRs, and…
Espruino is a solution to code in JavaScript for microcontrollers. Espruino is a small computer that anyone can use to control things around them. Its JavaScript interpreter gives you instant feedback so that you can experiment and develop whatever your level of experience. Even if you can’t program, you can still get started quickly with…
FTDI Chip is using Kickstarter to fund an open source reference design for an Arduino UNO compatible board. The NerO is based on the company’s FT231X USB UART, and delivers 5V at 1A without overheating. It is described as an “Energy Efficient Arduino UNO Compatible Design”. “With NerO we wanted to take a whole new…
Christmas is coming, what better chance to introduce our beloved children to the passion for Making? Here is one of the 3 Lunchbox Electronics projects so cute to have our babies working on them! We are Lunchbox Electronics and we are creating Build Upons: Light up bricks to build upon your existing LEGO® creations. Light…
The BSK is fun right out of the box and it works as a standalone toy, as well. It is a Lego® compatible toy that snaps easily to your bricks, and the iOS and Android app lets you record and playback sounds. It’s also a fully open platform where kids, collectors, makers, inventors, parents, and…
OEM is a project to develop open-source energy monitoring tools to help us relate to our use of energy, our energy systems and the challenge of sustainable energy. Wireless sensor nodes sending data at to a web-connected Raspberry Pi base-station. Supports home energy, solar PV and remote temperature monitoring plug-and-play out of the box. Fully open-source Arduino IDE compatible…
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