Another beautiful open source and DIY kit for children is hitting kickstarter, it’s kinda urgent if you want to give a hand! Mirobot is a small, WiFi robotics kit that children can build themselves and then use to learn about technology, engineering and programming. It’s fun to build and easy to start programming it to…
A very interesting french project for a touchless gesture control device: definitely worth supporting! 3D-Pad is a touchless gesture control interface providing 3D coordinates and gesture recognition, with a 10cm depth perception. It consists of a sandwich made up of: a PCB called an electrode plane (1) an Arduino Shield (2) an Arduino Uno (3) – based on ATMEL ATmega328…
The Mamba3D printer is an affordable, high quality, all-metal, open source 3D-printer raising funds on kickstarter. According to the project founders: “Not only are we looking for funding but we also want to built a community around our open source printer. Backers can think and develop with us in expanding and upgrading the printer in the…
Probably, the most attentive ones will be already informed that this year, the fifth edition of the Open Hardware summit will finally be in Europe, Italy, during Rome’s Innovation week, that will also feature the European Maker Faire: Finally, the Open Hardware Summit this year will be held in parallel with the Innovation Week in Rome….
This is totally a Chindōgu invention. I’m surprised the guys even it 1k$ mark – friends and family – but this is so cool, and it’s a demonstration of what you can actually find on Kickstarter. Incredible stuff. We’ve all experienced the frustration of creative drought. You’re sitting down, trying to come up with your next…
This year OuiShare Fest Award will give winners the possibility to receive a fantastic incubation program. You can help some amazing Open Source and Makers projects to win: The Program Training – 3 collective half-day trainings delivered by the OuiShare community Mentoring – one-to-one working sessions with mentors, chosen from a list of experts Celebrating…
Imogen Heap is crowdfunding an Open Source version of the state-of-the-art wearable tech that let’s control sounds with your hands. “The time has arrived! We are making the first Mi.Mu gloves available to people who want to work with us to shift the paradigm of how music is made and performed. This Kickstarter campaign has…
Following some interesting developments in the direction of access and open source at RaspberryPI – with Broadcomm driver release – Raspberry Pi releases today the Compute Module: The compute module contains the guts of a Raspberry Pi (the BCM2835 processor and 512Mbyte of RAM) as well as a 4Gbyte eMMC Flash device (which is the equivalent…
Moving Images from Axiom Alpha Prototype: one word, thrilling! read the details here: Moving Images from Axiom Alpha Prototype | apertus° – open source cinema.
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…
A awesome LAN connected RGB lamp project submitted through our submit channel. A few weeks ago we ripped out an RGB LED from an old Canon Scanner that was laying around and going to waste. Since then we’ve been playing around with the RGB LED element and decided to put it to good use. We…
Probably, the best use you could do with a Raspberry Pi would be turning it in a full-fledged media center. With some tuning, a Raspberry Pi can become indeed a device that audiophiles will love, or a tiny board that can empower you television to become a 2014-like smart TV. All you need is some…
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