Why Quirky Failed — Lessons learned
There has been a lot of chatter in the startup community about a company you may not have heard of.…
Carve Metal With Electricity in Your 3D Printer | Make:
Take any 3D printer, throw on this modular head, and use it as an EDM machine to do precise metal…
A new starting point in the Maker’s Movement – infographic
Maker’s movement is gaining members and popularity every day running, impacting nowadays on the way we make, build, industrialize goods.…
Save the date: European Maker Faire Rome 16-18 October 2015
Maker Faire Rome 2015 The Maker Faire returns in 2015. For the third consecutive year, Rome will host the European…
Open Source Ecology shows how to enter a $100B market with Open Source
Critics of the open source economy point out that “Open source is a system of development that doesn’t have the…
The Open Source Snow Plow Robot: discovering the Firmware
Just a few weeks ago, we presented in this blog the maker version of a motorized snowplow, similar to those…
32,000 Open Source Hardware Designs available on Upverter!
Upverter is a community hosting schematics, blueprints, bill of materials, very often also full layouts. Today they hit an incredible…
Hydro: The First Low Cost Waterjet Cutter for less than $5K
Waterjet cutters are generally huge machines, with equally large price tags. But what if there was a hobbyist level waterjet…
Control your Satellite with Networked Open Ground Station!
Have you ever dreamed about having a real Satellite by your own, or at least control it through a 3D…
Here comes the open source Snow Plow Robot
We present a caterpillar robot based on Arduino Uno, remotely controlled through a Play Station 2 wireless controllers. Since we…