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The International Summit on Critical and Transformative Making, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2015. Manifeste. Faire éclater les catégories, casser les outils du passé Pour répondre aux questions à l’agenda, il faut sortir des mécanismes qui ont prévalu.

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Les anciennes méthodes et façons de procéder ne permettent pas de répondre aux enjeux qui se posent. En particulier, la mobilisation d’acteurs divers et pluridisciplinaires est nécessaire pour ouvrir les perspectives et construire différemment : Page 5. Open Models : un ouvrage collectif sur les modèles ouverts. Depuis le début de l’année 2014, ce sont 8 événements qui ont été organisés dans le cadre d’Open Experience, ainsi que 14 mesures qui ont été proposées au gouvernement, 35 articles qui ont été publiés et 25 vidéos qui ont été réalisées.

Open Models : un ouvrage collectif sur les modèles ouverts

Pour partager les conclusions de ce cycle de réflexion sur les modèles économiques ouverts, Louis-David Benyayer, cofondateur de Without Model, a passé les derniers mois à coordonner la réalisation d’Open Models, un ouvrage collectif disponible en précommande dès aujourd’hui. Entretien. Qu’est-ce qui t’a à l’origine poussé à te pencher sur les modèles ouverts ? Louis-David Benyayer. J’en avais assez des discours négatifs.

Il y a beaucoup d’énergies positives quand on regarde dans les marges, et les modèles ouverts constituent une partie de la réponse aux défis auxquels nous sommes confrontés. What to Know About the Maker Movement and Why You Should Care. This entire week, events around Washington, DC have been centered on spotlighting the Maker Movement – a group comprised of craftspeople, tinkerers, hobbyists, inventors, and overall enthusiasts, all of whom engage in the act of creating.

What to Know About the Maker Movement and Why You Should Care

Rather than the mere inventors of the past, these do-it-yourself “makers” have access to modern technologies, robust resources, and an easily accessible network of support that enables them to take part in the global economy. Build technology together! Wanna Build a Rocket? NASA's About to Give Away a Mountain of Its Code. Forty years after Apollo 11 landed on the moon, NASA open sourced the software code that ran the guidance systems on the lunar module.

Wanna Build a Rocket? NASA's About to Give Away a Mountain of Its Code

By that time, the code was little more than a novelty. But in recent years, the space agency has built all sorts of other software that is still on the cutting edge. And as it turns out, like the Apollo 11 code, much of this NASA software is available for public use, meaning anyone can download it and run it and adapt it for free. You can even use it in commercial products. Concept: Intimate Care Products. Save, Create and run your own pirate bay. Vers une économie open source: Une nouvelle révolution industrielle.

La révolution est déjà là Note : Cet article est la compilation d’une série d’articles postée sur le blog d’Open Initiative.

Vers une économie open source: Une nouvelle révolution industrielle

The Project to Let Anyone Download and Print Their Own House. Hacking households presents open system for appliances at BIO 50. Sep 30, 2014 hacking households presents open system for everyday objects at BIO 50 hacking households presents open system for everyday objects at BIO 50photo by tilen sepič open source thinking has been permeating into all areas of design in recent years, through increased access to technologies such as 3D printing and do-it-yourself circuitry, as well as a general criticality towards industrial processes which have dominated the past century. to build upon this forward thinking and optimistic dialogue, a team was assembled for BIO 50 – ljubljana’s biennale – to rethink the basic structure through which everyday objects are conceived, made, and used.

hacking households presents open system for appliances at BIO 50

3D Printed IRON MAN Child Prosthetic Hand. Internet of Things - ThingSpeak. Open Design and 3D Printing Yield Improved Device for Cystic Fibrosis Care. Sometimes, the realities of the marketplace mean that companies simply cannot justify making a product for a niche application, and this can be particularly true for high-tech items such as medical devices that may have a tiny user base.

Open Design and 3D Printing Yield Improved Device for Cystic Fibrosis Care

Thankfully, the power of open-source collaboration – combined with the versatility of additive manufacturing techniques – means that products can now be made that bypass the traditional commercialization route. A perfect example can be found in a collaborative design effort to create a dispensing device for medicines used to treat the genetic disease cystic fibrosis (CF), spearheaded by researchers in the UK.

The team – from Sheffield Hallam University, the University of Sheffield and the CF unit at Northern General Hospital – enlisted the aid of patients in the design of the new dispenser, which aim to overcome some of the barriers to treatment with Creon, an enzyme preparation that is used to help CF patients digest food. Animated Turn Signals. The controller is a PICAXE-14M which uses a ULN2803 darlington driver to drive the LEDs.

Animated Turn Signals

On my car, there is no constant 12v supply to the tail lights, so I designed the circuit to operate in two modes. When the controller sees that the tail lights are on, it does the animation. When the tail lights are off (and its only getting intermittent power from each blink) all the LEDs turn on like normal turn signals. The normal mode also seems to give a little more visibility during the daylight. 10 Reasons To Use Open Source Software-Defined Networking. 3D Printing and the Challenge of Intellectual Property. I’m sure you have been in the situation at home where you have misplaced an important part of your vacuum cleaner, broke a key of your laptop, or even worse, the handle of your favorite pan.

3D Printing and the Challenge of Intellectual Property

Such items could be easily replaced with the help of a 3D printer. But why aren’t the masses embracing 3D printing? Most technology experts give these three answers to this question: Slow printing speedLow printing qualityRelatively high price of quality printers. School of Open Africa to launch in September. (SOO logo here.

School of Open Africa to launch in September

Earth icon licensed CC BY by Erin Standley from the Noun Project.) After months of discussions, deliberations, and planning between CC staff, African Regional Coordinators, African Affiliate teams, and others in the open space, Creative Commons Africa is set to storm Africa by having a continent-wide launch for School of Open in September. School of Open is a global community of volunteers providing free online courses, face-to-face workshops, and innovative training programs on the meaning, application, and impact of “openness” in the digital age.

Through School of Open, you can learn how to add a Creative Commons license to your work, find free resources for classroom use, open up your research, remix a music video, and more! School of Open Kenya School of Open South Africa CC South Africa hosts three projects under the School of Open initiative. Debunking Kipochi, Mpesa & Bitcoin in East Africa - CoinBrief. If you’ve heard about mobile money & East Africa, you’ve probably also heard about M-PESA. M-PESA is basically a way to transfer money over ubiquitous mobile communication networks. Mobile phones have proliferated Kenya & East Africa and as per the Communication Authority (regulator) in Kenya, there were total number of 30.5 million mobile subscriptions as of 2013. OpenBazaar. Robert David Steele - The Open Source Everything Manifesto. Internet of Things - RasPi Espresso Machine iSPRESSO.

North Atlantic Books - The Open-Source Everything Manifesto. What the world lacks right now—especially the United States, where every form of organization from government to banks to labor unions has betrayed the public trust—is integrity. Also lacking is public intelligence in the sense of decision-support: knowing what one needs to know in order to make honest decisions for the good of all, rather than corrupt decisions for the good of the few. The open source revolution is coming and it will conquer the 1% - ex CIA spy. Robert David Steele, former Marine, CIA case officer, and US co-founder of the US Marine Corps intelligence activity, is a man on a mission. But it's a mission that frightens the US intelligence establishment to its core.With 18 years experience working across the US intelligence community, followed by 20 more years in commercial intelligence and training, Steele's exemplary career has spanned almost all areas of both the clandestine world.

Steele started off as a Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer. Mr Beam - a Portable Laser Cutter and Engraver Kit by Mr Beam Lasers. With the Mr Beam kit, you can build your own laser cutter and engraver. Explore new ways to express your creativity: Cut your own designs from paper, adhesive foil (custom stickers!) Or other materials with the power of light. Mr Beam is a Portable Open Source Laser Cutter and Engraver Kit. Ok, this project is super cool, and that’s why indeed it got already funded exceeding the initial target and still you’ve few days to share your support: Mr Beam is an open source DIY laser cutter and engraver kit for paper,wood, plastic and other materials.

It’s fun and easy to use.What is Mr Beam? With the Mr Beam kit, you can build your own laser cutter and engraver.Explore new ways to express your creativity: Cut your own designs from paper, adhesive foil (custom stickers!) Or other materials with the power of light. Why You Should Open-Source Your Startup - CodeCombat Blog. When we open-sourced everything a month ago, we were nervous. What if no one contributes? , we worried. We had spent a week writing documentation, automating the developer setup, filing easy issues, paring down the repository, and preparing licenses. We wanted to demonstrate that open source should be the default choice for many startups and games, but if we failed, then we would have done the opposite.

We needn't have worried. 64,000 views 2275 stars 537 forks 223 watchers 50 contributors 711 commits 139 pull requests #1 trending repo on GitHub for the day we launched #6 trending repo over the first month. Crowd Supply. A new open-hardware computing platform, flexible and powerful, designed for use as a desktop, laptop, or standalone board. Novena is a 1.2GHz, Freescale quad-core ARM architecture computer closely coupled with a Xilinx FPGA. It’s designed for users who care about Free Software and open source, and/or want to modify and extend their hardware: all the documentation for the PCBs is open and free to download, the entire OS is buildable from source, and it comes with a variety of features that facilitate rapid prototyping. Premiums & Pledge Levels We are offering four variations. The prices listed below are 10% higher than they were during the crowdfunding campaign (April 2 - May 18): Fabule - expressive devices for creatives homes.

Bunnie's blog. Open source work space. Lasersaur Manual. Our printers - Ultimaker Original - Ultimaker. UltimakerOriginal Ultimaker Original is upgradeable through hardware updates and free open source software. Build it, use it, improve it. It’s up to you. Available as DIY kit or fully assembled. The assembled version has the UltiController included.Full Starter Package included! OpenLabTools. Open Source for Humanitarian Action. Ushahidi develops free software that allows volunteers to map humanitarian crises from their mobile phones. Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects. Open-source fabrication technologies. What is the Role of the 'Open Source' Movement in Society Today? We are in the process of transitioning from the Industrial Age of the past century into the Information Age of the 21st century.

Introducing Tabby: an industrializable, production ready, versatile, universal chassis. Knowable. Things - Hardware Conference Berlin. OpenDesk - Open Source Furniture — Made Locally. A Smart Open Design Startup is Born: OpenDesk. The master list of 20+ Open Source Furniture Design is the second most read article on MakingSociety. Open Hardware isn’t only about electronics. How Open Source Hardware Is Driving the 3D-Printing Industry.

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Philosophy. Open design. Innovation without patents? Make. Crowd. P2P. Stigmergy. REMIX culture. Nomad / Knowmad. ¥€$ Democracy 2.0.