After countless hours of playing with 3Drag (now with a lower price!!) we finally selected 10 prints that you can use to explain what you can really make with your 3D printer. 3D printing is every day more often mentioned in the press: lots of stories, ranging from printing human tissues (thus saving lives) to creating…
Here’s a new episode of our Meet the Founders column! This time we interviewed the amazing Eric Pan, founder of SeeedStudio. Eric is a long time open hardware advocate and also a great business leader. Eric was, indeed, recently featured on Forbes cover and we took the chance to ask him some advices on how…
[youtube id=”5H85RDA5HEw” width=”620″ height=”360″] Andrew O’Malley, an amazingly creative maker, created this fanstastic Open Source Arduino-based clock that can display the time in many different ways: if not enough, one can also add his own personal animation. Andrew’s idea Compared to other clocks based on Arduino, this one has two distinctive features: a single…
Finally, you can submit your projects for publication! See this page here with all the details about the process! Unleash your creativity and tell the others what you’re up to!
These recent breakthroughs in electrical component technology are likely to have a significant impact on the electronics industry – and on people’s everyday lives. Graphene – Latest News for Revolutionary Material Your’e probably aware of the superstar conductor of the future, Graphene: “A wonder material that is the world’s thinnest, strongest and most conductive…
Here’s a simple but essential tool for monitoring the 3Drag and print without the need of a connected computer: all this thanks to a cursor, an SD card slot and an LCD display. Obviously we applied this to our interpretation of the Rep Rap universe (the 3Drag) but you can really easily tweak and adapt…
Today we present you a stereo 10 + 10 Watts audio amplifier based on TDA7297SA, a monolithic dual bridge amplifier that is suitable to be used in projects that feature access to a single 12 volts power supply. This is a compact stereo amplifier: its field of application range from car stereo to portable audiovisual…
INFOGRAPHIC: Your Future, 3D Printed | Roadshow for Growth.
Being really open source is no joke. Open sourcing an hardware product, usually goes through several major steps. The first one is usually verifying that all the software is really open source, Free to use and adapt and accessible. It’s very important to stress this point, there’s a big difference in freeware (and in general…
A few days ago was released the new version of Repetier Host, the recommended software for our printer 3Drag. The version 0.90B integrates several new functions. Let us see the main: Version 0.90 23-06-2013 Slic3r 0.9.10 included. Redesigned object placement tab. Cut objects in any direction. Analyse mesh, calc volume, surface, dimensions. Import/export…
Let’s expand RaspberryPi functionalities with a shield that is compatible with the Arduino pinout and with an onboard analog to digital converter with 16-bit resolution. Further expansions that we will present in the future will allow you to add a DAC, a number of additional digital I/Os and the ability to connect also with non…
Continuing our experience in interviewing cool people from the Open Source hardware, digital manufacturing and startups realm we are now presenting today an interivew with Alessandro ranellucci Alessandro, lives in Rome (Italy), has a background in architecture and in software development, that he himself describes as “two parallel worlds” despite enjoying spending time in both…
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