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The New Learning Center, Free eBooks, And More
Opensource.com focused on stories about open source tools and systems for libraries and other open educational content from April 14 - 18. And before you curl up with your favorite book, we've got new eBooks for you to download and some discoveries from our Open Library Week that you'll want to bookmark—or 3D print.
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The Story of Ultimaker: 3D Printers with Open Source DNA
Today we're seeing open hardware projects and businesses succeed for the first time in history. Why, and what do they look like? The story of the Ultimaker and its user community proves that being open is in fact sustainable and may even go a step further to say that that sharing and collaboration are genuine routes to innovation. Let's go back several years to a makerspace in Utrecht, a big city in the Netherlands. The founders of Ultimaker, a premium 3D printer manufacturer, were inspired by the potential of 3D printing, and experimenting with the open source designs of the RepRap project...
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This Intern Figured Out How To Make A Crazy-Small 3-D Printer
Like most interns, Stefan Reichert was assigned a bunch of menial tasks while working for top tier design consultancies in Silicon Valley. No one asked the German student to fetch coffee, but he was assigned the art school equivalent—setting up and maintaining the office’s 3-D printer. [...] Read More »
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Virtumake – DIY 3D Scanners And Open Source Hardware
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how many words is a 3D model worth? 3D Scanning is taking 3d printing to another level – it is allowing people to visualize the natural world in new ways. Read More »
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We Need Your Help! Join Our Fight To Keep 3D Printing Open
A few weeks ago, we asked for your help to identify patent applications that threaten to stifle innovation in the 3D printing community. Now more than ever, it's critical to make sure the free and open source community and others who work in the space have freedom to operate and to continue to innovate. Read More »
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What Is 3D Printing? And Will It Change The World?
In the latest episode of PBS's "OffBook" series, entrepreneurs and journalists discuss the future of the technology, considering not just how 3D printing can change the way humans create, but also how it can change our assumptions -- about manufacturing and retailing and economic efficiencies, about food production and even human production. "It's going to force us to change the way we think about not only buying products, but how they're made," says Carine Carmy of Shapeways, a 3D printing community and marketplace. Read More »
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With Ingenuity And A 3D Printer, Group Changes Lives
Ebeling had read a magazine article a few months earlier about the 16-year-old, whose hands and forearms had been blown off two years ago during an airstrike launched by the Sudanese government. The boy's plight resonated with Ebeling, who tracked down the remote hospital where Daniel had received treatment.
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Your Current Supply Chain Is Toast, But Its Replacement Will Be Awesome
3D printing, robotics and open-source hardware will usher in a superior alternative: Software defined supply chains. Read More »
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