More about VIA OpenBook and different levels of openness for Open Hardware
The news of the publication of VIA OpenBook‘s CAD files has spread rapidly in the web. It is worth now to read some thoughts and quotes that Michel Bauwens of P2P Foundation published in the Foundation...
View ArticleOpen Hardware, on the Economist
The concept of Open Hardware arrived even on the Economist’s pages too. Companies, for their part, say an open approach can help them get to market quickly with products that give customers what they...
View ArticleDocumenting the DIY and Makers movement
I discovered that another documentary on DIY culture, Hackerspaces and the Maker movements has just been released yesterday by Ryan Varga on Vimeo. Even if a bit short (16 minutes), it is a good...
View ArticleA documentary (and other resources) about Arduino
After some months of waiting, the documentary about Arduino (the most famous and successful Open Hardware project) is now finally ready and online at http://arduinothedocumentary.org/. The documentary...
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Business Models for Open Hardware
Few months ago, Platoniq commissioned me a report about business models for Open Hardware, DIY Craft and Fab Labs, for their crowdfunding project Goteo. It is now available in Spanish from Platoniq’s...
View ArticleMassimo Banzi: The State of Arduino
After the video of Neil Gershenfeld at the Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, here’s now the video of Massimo Banzi about the state of Arduino and of its community from the same event. One of the interesting...
View ArticleOn Open Business Models @ EDUfashion conference, Ljubljana 02/06/2011
Following the previous post, let’s still talk about Open Design in the Fashion Design sector and about the EDUfashion project (and its openwear.org brand). Few weeks ago I was invited in their event:...
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A meeting for the Open community: Open Knowledge Festival 2012
More than one year ago I was invited to a panel about Open Hardware and Open Standards in Berlin, for the Open Knowledge Conference 2011. I haven’t had time to blog about it, since the past year has...
View ArticleAnother documentary about Arduino
Almost two years after the first documentary about Arduino, we can now watch a second (and more up to date even if shorter) one, produced by Wired Italy. It is in Italian but with English subtitles:
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