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Scenes from The Maker Faire
Create post Last weekend, I got to see the future of making objects in the information economy at the World Maker Faire in New York. Since finance has replaced manufacturing at the core of in the...
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3D Printing Community to Crowdsource Saving a Species
Create post Where does 3D printing and species protection intersect? Hermit crabs, apparently. Makerbot Industries, who make do-it-yourself 3D printers, launched Project Shellter last Tuesday. Project...
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This Week in Sharing
Create post I know it's Fall in New York because the weather is changing and I wish I were back in Northern California where it never does. But inside, sheltered from the wind, I present you these...
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Five Things I Saw at Contactcon
Create post On October 20 I had the luck to join a group of some of the brightest and most creative people from every part of the tech spectrum at Contactcon. Held at the beautiful Angel Orensaz...
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To The Stars! A DIY, Open Source Manned Spacecraft
Create post Citizen science is often a hands-off activity, particularly when it comes to space exploration. There’s a wealth of collaborative projects on Spacehack.org, the clearing house of citizen...
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MIT’s Robot-Fabricating 3D Printer
You don't get much more Future Now than this: a 3D printer that prototypes and fabricates specialized robots within hours. Developed at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL)...
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This Week in Sharing: 3D Printing Upgrades to Prime Rib
In 1904, When William and Mary Goodwin sang "Oh, give me the steed and the gun that I need, to shoot game for my own cabin home" in their version of "Home on the Range", they couldn't have imagined...
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This Week in Sharing: Twitter Goes to Bat
This week in sharing, we have more on the less-than-utopian future of 3D printing, crowdfunding neighborhoods and code, a fitting tribute to Elinor Ostrom, and Twitter appealing the @destructuremal...
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Printing Guns: Open Source at its Limits
On Saturday, 3D-printing organization Defense Distributed obtained a federal license to manufacture and sell 3D-printed guns. Defense Distributed first came to public attention as the center of...
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This Week in Sharing: Guides to Open Source (Almost) Everything
Open education – from OpenSource.com: "Nearly every week, if not every day, there are more and more open source and open educational resources available and accessible to us. It's impossible to...
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