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Open Fit Lab’s Custom Jeans
Open Fit Lab is an ingenious project by Kyle McDonald and Lisa Cori Chung which uses a Kinect camera to scan a person’s body and uses algorithms to create custom pants patterns.
Open Source Underwater Robots!
Eric Stackpole explains how OpenROV puts underwater exploration in the hands of anyone through an open source design and kit.
Pitches with Prototypes: Open Clock Project
Next in our run-up coverage for the MAKE 2013 Hardware Innovation Workshop is Craig Bonsignore’s Open Clock Project. Bonsignore is a biomedical engineer with more than fifteen years of experience designing, developing, and analyzing cardiovascular implants. And he’s fed up with badly designed alarm clocks.
Robot Puppet Party at Maker Faire
The Hello World Program would like to invite you to a Robot Puppet Party at the Maker Faire Bay Area next month. Hello World has been running for about a year, building a library of video tutorials on a variety of open source tech topics, narrated by handmade puppets. Guido the Python teaches the Python programming language, of course, while the robot Unique ID discusses robotics, circuitry and the basics of object-oriented programming. Currently under construction is a new fox puppet who will be in charge of HTML tutorials.
Dale Dougherty to Speak at OuiShare Fest
Maker Media CEO Dale Daugherty is one of the speakers at the three-day European conference OuiShare, which explores the collaborative economy of openness and sharing. OuiShare, a global community focused on promoting the collaborative economy, today announced OuiShare Fest, the first European event on the collaborative economy, which will take place in Paris from May […]
Intern’s Corner: My Open Source Life Outside of MAKE
For the past two and a half years, I’ve been helping to develop an open source video game called Alien Arena. I’d been playing the game for a long time before this. I’d noticed a few bugs that needed fixing, and features that needed adding. A nice thing about open source development is that you […]
