Open Source book on Open Source Hardware?

Went to the post office to pick up a book. Open Source Hardware Vol. 1 arrived today. Well-wrought, and shaped like a Gary Larson album. Wow. Page 173 says the book will be an open source project, an editable wiki, where you can edit and add to it. Projects at Liquidware seems like a good …

The other Fedora

In case you were wondering about “Mark Leggot’s project”, Islandora, the Drupal-based frontend for the other one that was supposed to be “a repository for every kind of human knowledge”, which was also capable of transforming its contents to any current useful format: Fedora Commons is its website. Fedora refers to the Flexible Extensible Digital …

More FabLabbery, and Siert’s windmill

Rather than going back and editing my earlier post about that Icelandic guy, here’s some salient linkage on the subject. This is so exciting I almost skipped breakfast to watch it. Iceland’s FabLab wiki, which is run by Smári, from a previous post. A Dutch video with music about a FabLab workshop. Video unpacking and …

FSCONS: Smári McCarthy on abundance

Smári McCarthy Originally uploaded by Wrote The man in the picture is Icelandic, outlandish, with lots of fancy words. FabLabs (a set of machines to make any plastic object up to 1 meter in size) point to a future, and McCarthy talked about that future. No scarcity, everything “non-exotic” (which is not imbued with aura, …