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Vote For An Open Source Ecology Documentary In The Focus Forward Competition
Vimeo is being stupid and I can’t figure out how to embed the video. Anywho, Open Source Ecology (OSE) is an awesome project that is trying to create an open source version of the infrastructure that...
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The Featherweight Book Scanner – Open Hardware by Dany Qumsiyeh
This is an open source book scanner, which is cool. But you wanna know what the coolest part is? Okay, I’ll tell you. The coolest part is that this is an open hardware project that actually makes it...
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Help OSE Refine The Design Of Their Backhoe
Open Source Ecology is gradually evolving their process for open source engineering. This latest installment is a Google Doc that anyone can jump in and view/edit. They’ve posted several questions so...
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VehicleFORGE – DARPA’s Open Source Hardware Competition Is Open For Registration
I’m gonna start this post with a little bit of background. I’m a developer on various open source hardware projects, others and my own. Hardware has more barriers to entry than software, particularly...
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The Burrito Bomber Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
Yes, it’s a drone that delivers a burrito directly to wherever you are. It’s open source and you can find all the files on Darwin Aerospace’s website, or the github repository.
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Bunnie’s Totally Open Source Laptop
Andrew (bunnie) Huang, who won the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s 2012 Pioneer Award (for something different), is currently testing the first version of his open source laptop hardware. It’s about...
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Ford Officially Backing Open Source 3D Printers
In a press release Ford Motor Company bragged about using 3D printing in general, and the open source Makerbot Thing-O-Matic in particular, to develop some of the smaller plastic parts for its...
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iFixit Literally Opens Hardware
Part of the point of open hardware is, you know, the open part. If you can’t open it, then it’s not open. iFixit tears apart popular consumer products, then rates them 1-10 based on how easy they are...
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QU-BD Combo CNC Mill And 3D Printer Pre-Order Interview
I’ve been saying for a while that there’s nothing inherently expensive about 3D printing technology…at least not the FFF type. Assuming the technology becomes more popular over the next few years...
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Year of Open Source 2013 Calendar
Year of Open Source is a lifestyle and documentary project by Sam Muirhead. He is spending a year replacing as much as possible of what he does with open source alternatives. As part of his fundraising...
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DARPA’s Open Source Cyber-Electro-Mechanical Design Tools Are Posted
Just a quick post to remind the world that DARPA has posted the open source design tools (and associated tutorial) that will be used to simulate and eventually manufacture an infantry fighting vehicle....
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Lots Of Links
Here are a lot of links I think are relevant to open hardware. The first is that apparently RepRap has its own magazine now! Zero Cost Modeling of Space Frames – Julian Edgar demonstrates how to...
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The Open Hardware Toolchain Survey
Apologies for the silence. This blog got put on an unannounced hiatus as my new project gobbled up all of my free time. If you’re reading this then the odds are pretty good that you already know what...
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