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Open Source USB-Based Power Supply
Normally power supplies are AC-powered, and big, so they aren’t portable. They also tend to have more power and/or features than you need for most tasks. Is that fact ruining your life? Open source...
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MaKey MaKey, Apparently Exactly What People Want
Crowdfunding is a reasonably popular way to launch, or maintain, an open hardware project. The best site for this approach is Kickstarter. Some projects get their funding, some don’t. What’s the...
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Crowd Funding Dump
Kickstarter has subdivided their “technology” category into “open software” and “open hardware” which makes my job a little faster. There aren’t very many things in it…but I suppose that also makes my...
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QU-BD Open Source Design & Manufacturing Startup, Interview
Teamwork is a wonderful thing. Frequently the world has to put up with 1) inventors who don’t market their product or interact with their community enough to be successful or 2) marketers who don’t...
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Kanyi Maqubela Interviewed Jessica Jackley of Kiva About Crowd Funding
Kanyi Maqubela of Collaborative Fund interviewed Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley for The Atlantic (how’s that for maximum name-dropping in minimum space). Read the article, or continue reading for some...
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Makerbot Gets Cloned…Again
Well that escalated quickly. Open source hardware hasn’t really been a thing for very long, so it doesn’t have many success stories. Arduino is probably the only obvious one. Makerbot is quickly...
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The Amp Hour #114
I think this episode of The Amp Hour is a nice segue from Makerbot’s open/closed source fiasco. After an introduction about winter and new jobs they discuss the Replicator 2 and Pettis’ abysmal message...
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Makeblock Is A New Modular Aluminum Extrusion System
Makeblock is here to solve your robot problems. The t-slot aluminum extrusion is a tried-and-true way of building modular frames, and even simple mechanisms. It works, but it has an Achilles Heel…the...
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