"Open Design Engine is a web portal developed specifically to address the urgent need to publish not only the final plans but the entire design process for open source hardware projects. We like to think of it as the Source Forge for hardware."
Designed and manufactured in a collaboration by more than 50 companies, the StreetScooter (which isn't actually a scooter) may show a new way of engineering and producing cutting edge vehicles.
First-authored by Mark D. Huntington, a graduate student in Odom's group, a recent paper in Small ("A Portable, Benchtop Photolithography System Based on a Solid-State Light Source") describes the device that can be constructed from an array of UV light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and powered by AA batteries.
"Using the Objet Geometries Connex500 3D printer, one capable of on-the-fly use of multiple materials, he made a flute in 15 hours. The results are surprisingly good for a first attempt. The instrument is playable, but Amit plans additional iteration and improvement. (Be sure to watch through the video for some feedback on the details from flutist Seth Hunter.)"
technology markets have become progressively inaccessible to small innovators over the past three decades as individuals struggle to keep up with the technology treadmill