• RadioPlane Seeker Drone – The Drone That Finds What You Seek

    Radioplane, a new player in the drone sphere is introducing a next generation, highly adaptable, modular drone for serious work and adventure. The state of the art Seeker drone is designed to carry many different types of equipment for a...

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  • Limitless Automation with PLCnext Control

    PLCnext Control is Phoenix Contact’s first open control platform product based on PLCnext technology. As an enhancement to classical IEC 61131-compliant PLC programming, PLCnext Technology makes it possible to program controllers using high-level language, thus ensuring PLC-typical...

    • Posted 6 years ago
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  • Open Building Institute on Kickstarter opens the house source!

    The process began in October 2013 with a microhouse—a 144 sq ft tiny house with a loft, a bathroom and a kitchen. To this we then added a bedroom, a mud room, a porch, a library/work space,...

    • Posted 8 years ago
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  • How valuable is an open hardware design?

    Industry knows open source software has an immense value, but how valuable is an open hardware design? To answer that question, Dr. Joshua Pearce, an associate professor at Michigan Tech University analyzed three methods to quantify the...

    • Posted 9 years ago
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  • Minibuilders robots will build your House soon!

    A research group at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (iaac.net), based in Barcelona set on a goal of re-elaborating 3D printing techniques to overcome existing limitations for large scale application. Here are the first results:...

    • Posted 9 years ago
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  • PiTablet : a Raspberry Pi powered tablet with customizable design got funding on Kickstarter

    This project is based on A Raspberry Pi based (www.PiTouch.co) tablet plus a customizable, Open-source design for your needs and projects. It’s also a lot interesting for  wannabe creators on kickstarter: very cool to see the original developers...

    • Posted 9 years ago
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  • POC21 program wants to bring Open Source solution to the Sustainability problem

    This event which has been just announced as a collaboration between OuiShare and OpenState, has an ambitious plan: bring all the Open Source  creators together near Paris this summer to build solutions for sustainable living. POC21 (Proof Of...

    • Posted 9 years ago
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  • Welcome Obrary, another (not yet) Open Designs Markeplace

    In the words of the fouders, Obrary is “a marketplace of products collaboratively designed by the community can be produced by anyone, amateur or professional ” For us, open also means not being tied to any one...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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  • MatterMachine is the tool for Parametric Design

    An incredible new tool I’ve found online: this parametric design environment is perfect to implement parametric design features on top of open design projects. Look at the demo with an opendesk table: Design or tweak your product MatterMachine...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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  • Spirula 4.0: an open source speaker that you can 3D print

    Incredible project: a 100% wood 3d printed speaker abvailable in Open Design (no clue about the license used) – is unmentioned. This project really shows the potential of merging design and the fabrication revolution: Spirulida is the World’s...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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  • Open Source Beehives: help save bees (and humanity) from collapse

    From some time now. a group of amazing folks is trying to take over the risk of bee colony collapse. This is an important project, that deserves your support! PS: we a re wrangling with the idea...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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    How to start a Fab Lab: some tips and tricks

    Building a Fab Lab can be funny, and can be frustrating too, depending on how much you know about building a community, a place to work well (to partly live, to be honest), and building a team...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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    Open Compute Project: open design applied to data centers

    Have you ever thought about what would happen if data centers could share their specifications across companies to build a perfect infrastructure? I thought I was dreaming, when I realized that this already exists (and it is...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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  • Machine Series wants to merge FDM and Open Design

    Machine Series is a platform that lives between industry and artisans, producing elegant everyday objects through approachable, open source manufacturing technologies. The goal of Machine Series is to craft simplicity out of complexity – to create restrained,...

    • Posted 10 years ago
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  • Ten Open Source Hardware and Design Projects that are setting New Standards

    Everything Open Source Hardware The Open Source hardware and design community is on fire these days. Apart from the projects that eventually already gained worldwide recognition such as Open Source Ecology, DIYDrones, Arduino or RepRap, many fantastic...

    • Posted 11 years ago
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  • Architecture for Dogs: an open design project for Dogs furniture

    Amazingly enough, a new open source hardware project has born: “Architecture for Dogs, invented by architects and designers, is an extremely sincere collection of architecture and a new medium, which make dogs and their people happy. By...

    • Posted 11 years ago
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