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Open Hardware Groups Spread Across the Globe

By Emilio Velis | July 1, 2017

After our group of friends founded a small open hardware community in El Salvador a few years ago, we felt alone in the region. The open hardware movement had developed in a creative explosion of projects and (thanks to the popularization of 3D printing and digital technologies such as Arduino) under a common understanding of how to develop new physical products. The fact that all these people came together so quickly and in so many places at the same time made it harder for people to find each other than it was during the open source software community's development, which found its place within the Linux community and grew through events such as FLISOL in many different Latin American countries...

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Open Source 3D Printing Technology & Healthcare

By Peter Groen | December 17, 2012

During 2012, we saw a dramatic increase in the study and use of 3D printing technology by biotechnology firms and academia for possible use in tissue engineering applications. Building organs and body parts using 'open' 3D printing techniques, layers of living cells are deposited onto a gel medium or sugar matrix and slowly built up to form three dimensional structures. This field of biotech research has been variously referred to as organ printing, bio-printing, body part printing and computer-aided tissue engineering, among other terms. Read More »

Open Source Hardware Camp 2012

Andrew Back | DesignSpark | September 21, 2012

The second annual Open Source Hardware Camp take place in the Pennine town of Hebden Bridge in the North of England, with ten talks on the Saturday and four hands-on workshops on the Sunday. Read More »

Open Source Pushes 3D Printers To Success

Eric Brown | Linux.com | February 1, 2013

[Desktop 3D printing is] definitely one of the hottest tech trends around. Open source DIY hacker engineers, artists, and craft designers have led the surge on the low end while higher-end models are already being used in rapid prototyping and short-run, custom manufacturing. Read More »

Open-Source Could Be A New Avenue For Manufacturers

Chris Fox | Manufacturing.Net | July 23, 2014

Have you heard about the open-source revolution? Like 3D printing, it only recently made its way into the mainstream, but like the additive manufacturing machines, it has been around for a while...

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OpenBionics Makes Low-Cost Open Source Robotic Hands Available to Amputees Around the World

By Don Watkins | March 21, 2016

Doing good for the world is often the nature of an open source software or hardware project. Offering code and schematics to others free of charge and with a license that allows for reuse and modification is often done to help others. Knowing this, I was still surprised to learn about an incredible project that combines robotics and prosthetics. This Instagram video of a robotic hand stopped me in my tracks. Further investigation revealed that the hand is the creation of OpenBionics...

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Openpump – An Open Source Syringe Pump With 3D Printing & Bioprinting Potential

Te Edwards | 3DPrint.com | December 18, 2014

Openpump, an open-source syringe pump made to dispense fluids over a set period of time, is just like the syringe pumps used to administer medication in hospitals and laboratory environments.  Most often used to perform chemical or biomedical research, pumps like this open-source version could easily be used for 3D printing extrusion of paste or as part of a 3D bioprinter for outputting biological materials...

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Organs On Demand

Kate Yandell | The Scientist | September 1, 2013

3-D printing has made inroads in the clinic, but constructing functional complex organs still faces major hurdles. Read More »

Osijek’s MeshPoint Gets an Award for the Best Humanitarian Technology

Vedran Pavlic | Total Croatian News | June 21, 2016

MeshPoint has been named the best startup project in the category "Best Humanitarian Tech of the Year", which made it the top humanitarian technology product in the competition with 11 other teams at The Europas contest. This startup project was developed based on the experience gained when these Slavonian volunteers brought to the refugees the devices for free wireless internet, as a part of the Open Network...

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Portland Ripe To Be A 3-D Printing Leader?

Peter Korn | KOIN.com | July 3, 2014

...President Barack Obama, in his State of the Union address last year, hailed as “the next revolution in manufacturing.”  Its proponents say 3-D printing holds the promise for corporations and individuals to print out their own three-dimensional objects as easily as we now print paper documents on inkjet printers...

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Print Me a New Arm, Please - Bionics and 3D Printing add to a Revolution in Medicine

By Kim Bellard | April 6, 2016

I just realized that I hadn't ever really written about two hot trends in health care: bionics and 3D printing.  I better get to it before they become mainstream, or are superseded by something even newer. Let start with bionics.  According to Merriam-Webster, bionic means "having normal biological capability or performance enhanced by or as if by electronic or electromechancial devices."  Bionics is the science of this...Bionics is estimated to be an $8b market (2014), with a projected 13.2% CAGR that would bring it to $20.5b by 2020.   The artificial kidney market is said to account for some 60% of the market, with livers expected to be the fastest growing segment over the period.

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Promoting Shared Hardware Design

Tal Nawy | Nature | June 27, 2013

Now is the time to move open-source hardware development into basic research labs. Read More »

Pulling Back From Open Source Hardware, MakerBot Angers Some Adherents

Rich Brown | CNET | September 27, 2012

You likely know MakerBot Industries as the poster child for the new era of 3D-printing. You might not know that, until last week, the company and its CEO, Bre Pettis, were considered shining lights in the open-source hardware movement. Read More »

Rethink the School of Tomorrow: Africa as the Starting Hypothesis

Stéphan-Eloïse Gras and the Africa 4 Tech team | LinkedIn | July 8, 2016

With 200 million inhabitants between the ages of 15 and 24, Africa is today the youngest continent on the planet. These young Africans will be the future leaders and the driving force of the continent’s economic, social and cultural development. A well-functioning inclusive educational system is thus essential to tackle tomorrow’s challenges. For several years, governments and large institutions on the planet, have attempted to implement an educational system relevant to the continent’s challenges. Considerable efforts have been made to catch up on an accumulated backlog in this crucial sector, allowing to tremendously enhance access to primary education...

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Rise of Drones for Medical Supply Delivery

By Kim Bellard | May 23, 2017

This is not going to all be about getting your books, or your socks, or even your new HD television faster. It is going to impact many industries -- including health care. And that impact has already started to happen. Zipline International, for example, is already delivering medical supplies by drone in Rwanda. They deliver directly to isolated clinics despite any intervening "challenging terrain and gaps in infrastructure." They plan to limit themselves to medical supplies, but not only in developing countries; they see rural areas in the U.S. as potential opportunities as well. Last fall they raised $25 million in Series B funding. Drones are also being considered for medical supply delivery in Guyana, Haiti, and the Philippines...

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