Welcome to definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009. First up - What is open source hardware? These are projects in which the creators have decided to completely publish all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, drawings and board files to recreate the hardware - they also allow any use, including commercial. Similar to open source software like Linux, but this hardware centric.
Source and more: Make
We the people, the untrained majority, are the future of design. We have the tools and we will be masters of our personal environments. Home fabbing with 3D printers, Web 2.0, open-source wikidesign, long tail economics - they’ll make it happen. We’re not dumb consumers, we’re creative consumers. Professional-Amateurs. Pro-Ams. We won’t buy anything that isn’t uniquely specified by ourselves. Click-and-print door handles, baby. Democratised design? You betcha!
That’s the vision, isn’t it? The future, both absurd and inevitable, depending on your point of view.
Could design, like journalism or photography, be overrun by user-generated content? The convergence of internet commerce, mass-customisation and 3D printers leads some scientists and designers to predict a utopia of democratised design. Others laugh at the idea, defending the indispensable skills of the profession and predicting a sea of homemade dross that will be compelling to no one except crazed hobbyists.
Source and whole article: Icon Magazine
High Tech Camping is een unconferentie over design en technologie die losjes is gebaseerd op het BarCamp format. Het event is bedoeld voor kunstenaars, ontwerpers, technologen, onderzoekers en bedrijven van de Campus, en kent alleen deelnemers en geen toeschouwers. Voor iedere deelnemer is een time slot van 15 minuten beschikbaar.
Het event vindt plaats op vrijdag 23 (15.00-22.00 uur) en zaterdag 24 oktober (10.00-18.00 uur) aanstaande op de High Tech Campus Eindhoven als onderdeel van de Dutch Design Week. Overnachten en napraten is mogelijk in Yurts (ronde tenten zoals in gebruik bij steppeNomaden).
High Tech Camping is een gezamenlijke productie van FreeFormFab, MAD en het High Tech Campus management.
T-DOSE is a free and yearly event held in The Netherlands to promote use and development of Open Source Software. During this event Open Source projects, developers and visitors can exchange ideas and knowledge. This years event will be held on 3 and 4 October 2009 at the Fontys University of Applied Science in Eindhoven.
C,mm,n (spreek uit als common) is een open source community voor duurzame individuele mobiliteit. C,mm,n zet in op elektrisch rijden en ontwikkelt een nieuw soort auto. Maar c,mm,n is meer dan alleen een voertuig: het biedt een oplossing voor mobiliteit in de toekomst. C,mm,n werkt open source: de c,mm,nity is open voor iedereen. Een ontmoetingsplek voor mensen die creatief, intelligent en ondernemend met mobiliteit omgaan en willen bijdragen aan een betere wereld. De blauwdruk van de c,mm,n auto is publiek beschikbaar onder een open source licentie. Zo werken over de hele wereld mensen aan de ontwikkeling van duurzame mobiliteit voor de toekomst.
C,mm,n is een open-source community voor duurzame individuele mobiliteit. Met de c,mm,nity wordt een nieuw soort auto en een nieuw mobiliteitsconcept ontwikkeld. C,mm,n biedt een oplossing voor mobiliteit in de toekomst. De c,mm,nity is een groeiende gemeenschap; momenteel zijn meer dan 800 mensen betrokken bij c,mm,n, waarvan circa 80 actief een bijdrage leveren. Wil je ook meedenken over duurzame mobiliteitsoplossingen? Of helpen bij het ontwerpen van de c,mm,n? Op dit moment wordt binnen de c,mm,nity hard gewerkt aan:
Source: C,mm,n
Sign up to attend Google’s largest developer event of the year, Google I/O, happening May 27th-28th at Moscone West in San Francisco. Over the two days, thousands of developers will come together to learn about the latest advancements in Android, App Engine, Chrome, Google Web Toolkit, AJAX APIs, OpenSocial and more. It’s a great opportunity to meet and talk with fellow developers and the engineers behind Google’s developer products. To learn more and register, visit the Google I/O website. Early registration ends May fitst.
And perhaps even more. These possibilities all flow out of free and open source licensing of designs (or in other words, they are less likely to happen with proprietary designs). Open Manufacturing is now being discussed at: Google Groups Open Manufacturing discussion group.
Source: Fabbaloo
Thingiverse is a place to share digital designs with the world. Some kind of Flickr for things. Just as computing shifted away from the mainframe into the personal computer, digital fabrication will share the same path. Infact, it is already happening: laser cutters, cnc machines, 3D printers, and even automated paper cutters are all getting cheaper by the day. These machines are useful for a huge variety of things, but you need to supply them with a digital design in order to get anything useful out of them.
Source: Thingiverse
Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
Arduino can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors and can affect its surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators. The microcontroller on the board is programmed using the Arduino programming language (based on Wiring) and the Arduino development environment (based on Processing). Arduino projects can be stand-alone or they can communicate with software on running on a computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP).
The boards can be built by hand or purchased preassembled; the software can be downloaded for free. The hardware reference designs (CAD files) are available under an open-source license, you are free to adapt them to your needs.
(RFID Kit)
Blender is een open source programma voor het maken van 3D computer graphics en computeranimaties. Het programma is beschikbaar voor verschillende besturingssystemen.
Het programma is in Nederland ontwikkeld. Door de afwijkende bediening behoorde het niet tot de meest bekende programma’s, maar het heeft wel een trouwe groep van gebruikers. De ontwikkeling werd op een gegeven moment gestopt en het programma was niet meer verkrijgbaar. Dat leidde tot veel reacties wat er mede toe heeft geleid dat de broncode van het programma openbaar gemaakt is en het nu een opensourceprogramma is geworden.
Het Blender Institute, onderdeel van de Blender Foundation, ontwikkelt open-source projecten, zoals films, die de ontwikkeling van Blender ook voortdrijven: de functionaliteit die men nodig heeft voor de projecten wordt gaandeweg toegevoegd aan Blender. Projecten waar men aan gewerkt heeft zijn Elephants Dream (2006), Big Buck Bunny (2008) en Yo Frankie! (2008).
The Open Source Initiative is an organization dedicated to promoting open-source software.The organization was founded in February 1998, by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, prompted by Netscape Communications Corporation publishing the source code for its flagship Netscape Communicator product. Later, in August 1998 the organization added a board of directors. Raymond was president from its founding until February 2005. The current president is Michael Tiemann.
Source: Wikipedia
The idea behind the OScar Project is simple: A community of people plans and develops a new car in the web. The idea is about the goal to develop a simple and innovative car, but also about the way how this goal is achieved. We would like to convey the idea of Open Source to hardware and we want OScar to be the precursor for many different projects in this field. If you are interested in how the idea was formed, read the manifesto of 1999.
Source: OScar
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain. See also Processing Monsters
Processing is an open project initiated by Ben Fry and Casey Reas. It evolved from ideas explored in the Aesthetics and Computation Group at the MIT Media Lab.
Source: Processing
The Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is one of the suite of Amazon Web Services, a crowdsourcing marketplace that enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks which computers are unable to do. Requesters, the human beings that write these programs, are able to pose tasks known as HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks), such as choosing the best among several photographs of a storefront, writing product descriptions, or identifying performers on music CDs. Workers (called Providers in Mechanical Turk’s Terms of Service) can then browse among existing tasks and complete them for a monetary payment set by the Requester. To place HITs, the requesting programs use an open Application Programming Interface, or the somewhat limited Mturk Requester site.
Source: Wikipedia
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