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Open Source Hardware
MakerBot TV: What Is Open Source?
The second season of MakerBot TV is off to a great start. In this third episode, MakerBot co-founder Bre Pettis talks about the power of open source.
MAKE Confetti Party with Kinect/Box2D Mashup
For the upcoming Vancouver Mini Maker Faire fundraiser party tonight, Vincent van Haaff made a fun confetti party with openFrameworks.
MAKE Visits the Open Source Ecology Project
Our special contributor, Jon Kalish, drives into Missouri’s corn and soybean country in search of the Open Source Ecology project.
Challenge: Name This Hack from Wayne & Layne
We love this hack from Wayne & Layne, but it needs a snappy name. Please, tell us, what should we call it and you could win to a one-year sub to MAKE and a MAKE T-shirt!
Open Source “Upgrade” Badges For Your Projects…
Tyler is a new maker on the scene with one of my favorite open-source hardware kits (an ambient-style GPS). Within just a few weeks a customer of his “upgraded” his kit all because it’s open-source. Tyler then made these cool badges to put on his product pages, etc to show and share that it’s been improved by going open. This is a great example of some of the things I talked about in my recent article “The {Unspoken} rules of open-source hardware”.
Follow Up – A Culture of Ethics in Open Source Hardware?
Ian from Dangerous prototypes has posted up some thoughts on my article “The {Unspoken} Rules of Open Source Hardware”. His post “A culture of ethics in open source hardware?” has some really good things from the point of view of someone who makes a living designing, supporting and shipping open-source hardware. Check it out!
