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LulzBot Mini 3D Printer Review

We have received a LulzBot Mini 3D Printer for review from our friends at Aleph Objects – an open hardware company in Loveland, Colorado. We respect Aleph Objects as a company true to the open source ethic – while developing one of the best...

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One of the issues of open source hardware development is the fragmented nature of documentation materials which vary not only in clarity and quality but are also spread out across a host of different platforms. This situation contributes to a general...

Open Source Hardware Development Method

We are working on a methodology for accelerating open source hardware development, and we are calling out open hardware practitioners to collaborate: (note: you can re-edit the video above to help us improve it by downloading the image/voice assets and...

Open Source Hardware Enterprise Model: Distributive Enterprise

Distribution of wealth, or poverty, is one of the most pressing global grand challenges remaining today. The 85 Richest People In The World Have As Much Wealth As The 3.5 Billion Poorest. This issue appears worth solving. What is required to make distributed...

OSE 4 Year Review

It’s been quite a ride over the last 4 years. We introduced the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) on the world stage at TED in 2011: Critics of the open source economy point out that “Open source is a system of development that doesn’t...