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A Review Of The Printrbot 3D Printer
If you're looking around for 3D printers that are both inexpensive and open source friendly, the Printrbot Simple Kit will probably catch your attention. Read More »
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3-D Printing Will Explode In 2014, Thanks To The Expiration Of Key Patents
Here’s what’s holding back 3D printing, the technology that’s supposed to revolutionize manufacturing and countless other industries: patents... Read More »
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3D Printing Could Herald The Age Of Open Source Stuff
3D printing is set to disrupt multiple industries thanks to its unique position at the intersection of three important trends in technology: the Internet of Things, our growing desire to personalize our things, and the coming revolution in the way things get delivered to us. Read More »
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3D Printing Could Save The Environment, Or Possibly Destroy It
Imagine the world of 3D printing fully realized. Read More »
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3D Printing Inventor 'Amazed' At Healthcare Applications
When Charles "Chuck" Hull created the first 3D printer in 1983, he had no idea next-generation devices would one day print prostheses. Read More »
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A Whole New Dimension As Manufacturing Goes 3D
If you want to get some idea of the hype surrounding 3D printing, check out what the stockmarket thinks. When Voxeljet, a German manufacturer of 3D, printers staged their initial public offering last month, its shares instantly doubled. [...] Read More »
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Can Open Source Hardware Movement Be Used To Realize Low Cost Educational Robots?
Robots are expensive! A simple robot arm costs more than ten thousand dollars. On the other hand, a state-of-the-art dish washer costs less than a thousand dollars. These two are not significantly different in terms of size or complexity, so what is the reason for such a large difference in their prices? Read More »
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China’s Plan To Survive The 3D-Printing Revolution: Own The Market
If 3D printing will up-end manufacturing as we know it, and if China is home to the world’s largest and most successful manufacturing industry, it ought to stand to reason that if—or when—3D printing eventually goes mainstream, China’s manufacturing will suffer, right? Some people certainly think so. Read More »
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Does Open Design Hardware Have a Place in Manufacturing?
...thanks to the popularity of publications like MAKE magazine, and an increase in the availability of specialty electronic parts and open source software, a maker renaissance has begun...
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Factory Workers in China: A Pyrrhic Victory for a World That Lost Its Conscience
...what does our unyielding appetite for Chinese durable goods mean for the first world conscience?...One only has to look at the overall picture in China to fully understand the magnitude of the human rights problem and why it is unlikely to abate anytime soon...
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Five Open Source Hardware Projects That Could Change the World
Open source hardware is increasingly making the news, as Ford partners with Bug Labs to “advance in-car connectivity innovation”, thousands of US Radio Shack stores start stocking Arduino, and Facebook releases the plans for energy-efficient data centre technology via Open Compute. But could it change the world? Andrew Back takes a look at five projects which just might...
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GE Ventures Into Crowd-Sourced Manufacturing
GE (General Electric) has formed a partnership with a US-based open-source hardware innovator called Local Motors, to launch a new model for manufacturing. Read More »
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How 3D Printing Will Rebuild Reality
When Star Trek debuted in the mid-60s, everybody geeked out about the food synthesizers. [...] Years later, I wasn’t the only one craving the replicators of Star Trek:The Next Generation for my home workshop... Read More »
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How Open Source Hardware Is Driving the 3D-Printing Industry
The potential of 3D printing to transform the way we get things - the market is predicted to hit $3.1 billion in the next four years - gets a lot of press. But not much of that attention has focused on the unique role of open source hardware in enabling 3D printing to realize its promise. Read More »
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How Technology Is Destroying Jobs
[...Erik] Brynjolfsson [...] and his collaborator and coauthor Andrew McAfee have been arguing for the last year and a half that impressive advances in computer technology—from improved industrial robotics to automated translation services—are largely behind the sluggish employment growth of the last 10 to 15 years. Read More »
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