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Yesterday I was at the annual Cambridge Science Festival – a two-week celebration of science, technology and engineering. One of the demonstrations that really struck a chord was at the Institute for Manufacturing by Raspberry Pi – the mini computer which is designed to help children develop (pun intended) a love of coding, programming and … Continue reading
Great discussion on Al Jazeera’s The Stream programme on the rise of the Maker movement. You can see the entire episode below here: It features Bre Pettis of MakerBot, Dale Dougherty founder of Make, and the incredible open source toolkit. There’s some great insight from Emeka Okafor founder of Maker Faire Africa too. Worth a watch. You … Continue reading
A week or so ago I wrote about the Open Hardware Summit in New York, one of the talks I wrote about (albeit briefly) was Bunnie Huang’s. The talk was great and he’s followed it up with an equally good blog post which I suggest you read.Huang was talking about the future of the open … Continue reading
I finally got round to watching some of the sessions from the Open Hardware Summit thanks to UStream. There were some fantastic presentations, and it was nice to put a voice (if not a face) to some of the companies and people I’ve been reading about for the last few years (and latterly writing about … Continue reading
Most of you on Twitter will have come across the daily ‘newspaper-style’ aggregator paper.li. Paper.li allows you to turn all the links from Twitter, Facebook and RSS feeds into daily papers. It’s a fantastic resource and one which I’ve been using for about a year to collate all the links from the people I follow … Continue reading
If Indiana Jones did video blogs, explaining what Open Hardware was – it might look like this. Only with more whips, hats, running and quips and less of an Australian accent. The conversation in the comments section on the YouTube channel is worth a read too.
The founder of MakerBot Bre Pettis, gave an insightful interview to TechCrunch TV last week – talking about the Hardware start-up scene. Pettis’ contention is that tools like Arduino and his own 3D printing technology now make it easier than ever before to launch a hardware start-up He describes how the open hardware scene resembles … Continue reading
If you were looking for the poster child of the Open hardware movement, you’d probably be looking at Arduino. Founded in Italy in 2005, it was born out of an academic research project and became open source out of necessity. The institution in which the project was created was due to close, the founders made … Continue reading
I’ve been reading about the second annual Open Source Hardware Summit – which takes place in New York in September. The summit brings together like-minded members of the maker movement, looking at open source hardware projects of all kinds – ranging from helping to spark community interaction to DIY tech. Without wishing to sound like … Continue reading
Thanks to TED talks I recently became aware of a movement called Open Hardware. In it Marcin Jakubowski describes his struggle to live the rural idyll. He would have gone under if it wasn’t for his attempt to build his own farm machinery and publicise the attempt on the web. Pretty soon he had dozens … Continue reading
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