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3D Printing Market Tops $3.3 Billion, Expands by 34% in 2014
If you’re wondering about the health of the market for 3D printers and 3D printing technology, put your thoughts at ease. Market research firm Canalys says almost 133,000 3D printers were shipped around the world during 2014, and that represents a whopping 68% increase over the calendar year 2013.
Continue reading “Jean Lievens: 3D Printing Market — and Superficial True Costs — Rising”
Here is a real advance in 3D printing No longer is the object made of layer deposited above layer, it's grown continuously speeding up the process and making the final object more “real”
Incredible New 3D Printing Technique Looks Like Sci-Fi
You've never seen a 3D printer like this
Now that networking's open, what's next?
Open-source hardware and software from Facebook's Open Compute Project offer new options, but most enterprises won't use them for years
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Skorupa expects a third of all IT shops — including the Web-scale players — to adopt open networking. Another third will stick with the tried and true, and the other third may go either way, he said. Read more.
Open Source Hardware will revolutionize the way we learn Electronics
Just like open source software movement revolutionized the way we learn software – this movement will definitely democratize the way we learn hardware. What I see is people making embedded systems – just like they make softwares independently.
Finally a laptop geared specifically for open source (free/libre) operating system and software…
Librem 15: A Free/Libre Software Laptop That Respects Your Essential Freedoms
The Purism Librem 15 is the first high-end laptop in the world that ships without mystery software in the kernel, operating system, or any software applications. Every other consumer-grade laptop you can purchase comes with an operating system that includes suspect, proprietary software, and there’s no way for you to know what that software does. The reality is that unless every aspect of your kernel, operating system, and software applications are free/libre and open source, there is no way to know that your computer is truly working in your best interest. Purism is the first to solve this problem. Read more.
32,000 Open Source Hardware Designs
This morning, our community has publicly shared over 32,000 open source hardware designs with the world.
They span the full range of dev boards, power supplies, home automation, solar, picture frames, and wearables. We can’t speak highly enough of those dedicated to the open source hardware movement, and who choose to share their reference designs, tutorials, and complete layouts so that others can learn and innovate faster.
8 Ways to Make a Living with Open Source Hardware
LIST ONLY:
#1 Product – You Sell Your Own
#2 Product – You Sell Products Made by Others
#3 Product – You Sell Products Made with Others
#4 Third-Party – You Sell a Service
#5 Third-Party – You Sell Your Expertise
#6 Knowledge – You Sell Workshops
#7 Donations – You Ask for Donations
#8 Subsidies – You Partner with a Larger Company
