3D printing is being part of our lives and we’re probably getting used to the idea of doing it to innovate and improve our work, and why not, our daily existence. It is always worth to look at the reality and not at the illusion, but the data and the market are quite clear. They…
The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) is kicking off the process to create an Open Source Hardware Certification. In addition to all of the amazing things that will happen at this year’s Open Hardware Summit, our goal is to be able to roll out the first version of the Open Source Hardware certification this fall….
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 –…
Recently announced, this book by Alicia Gibb aims at giving you a more clear idea of what does it mean to create an open source hardware company, product or project. It’s worth reading for those who are motivated to embark professionally in OSHW, it will be a precious and comprehensive guide: This is the first…
We totally lost this super cool Open Source Hardware project on Kickstarter but now is available for you to buy. Having such a micro programmable display, which is Arduino compatible, will seriously empower you with new use cases: The MicroView is the first chip-sized Arduino compatible that lets you see what your Arduino is thinking…
Very happy and interested to see more Chinese companies digging into the Open Source Hardware way and doing it properly: I am proudly to announce that we have open sourced the hardware design of rock pro/lite, completely. This is really a brave step for us especially here in Shenzhen, China, considering that someone is just…
Analog electronics is going to be ever rare in the future so it’s really the case to support these bunch of dreamers still wrangling with analog creations: Open Analog is about open source analog hardware. We take popular Integrated Circuits and turn them into transistor level PCB kits. This campaign is mainly to fund the…
As you may have noticed, there’s been some progress in the organization of the Open Hardware Summit 2014 that I’m co-chairing, This years OHSummit will be about the transition “From Open Making to Open Manufacturing”. Our focus is to broaden the definition of what open hardware means: production models are shifting from one to one, to one to many structure. The way…
In case you didn’t notice, Fab10 – the tenth international Fablabs conference – will kick off next week in Barcelona, recently dubbed as the Center of the Making World. Well, our Editor Simone will be around and indeed he will speak together with Open Hardware legend Massimo Banzi and Roland Community instigator Giovanni Re on a…
Samsung unveiled this amazing initiative at an event in San Francisco, announcing that SAMI will be powered by open software and open hardware and will let users control their own data. We will see how it develops, but still looks unclear what the path of opening will be: still looks you need to join the consortium…
AS you may know, just few weeks ago OSHWA published the results from 2013 Open Hardware Community survey. You can find original datasheets and everything here. Despite raw data is good, I thought it was good to spend some time looking at the data trying to gather more insights, when possible, still keeping in mind…
For those who still don’t know Gabriella Levine: she’s an artist and open source hardware designer doing a great job in exploring the connection between technology and ecology. Among other things, she creates incredible sculptural and robotic works that mimic environmental phenomena and animal behavior. Her current work includes Protei Inc (creating open source sailing…
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