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...

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...

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,...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...