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The Quiet Maker Revolution

Suzanne Deffree | Design News | March 31, 2016

No castles were stormed. No governments were overthrown. We’ve been experiencing a revolution in the worlds of engineering. It’s just been a quieter one than expected.
When open-source platforms and the maker movement started ramping up five years back or so, change came with its chants of “power to the people.” Indeed, the two trends that see individuals or groups of individuals create and possibly market products often without corporate intervention aim to do just that: give power of design to the masses...

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Why You’ll Want A Do-It-Yourself, NSA-Proof, Open-Source Laptop (Interview)

Dean Takahashi | VB News | April 9, 2014

Andrew “Bunnie” Huang lists a bunch of reasons why you’ll want his open-source laptop, the Novena. You can modify it yourself so that its battery will last however long you want it to.

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