DIY | Maker

By Singularity University adjunct faculty Mark Hatch, who is CEO and Co-Founder of TechShop and author of the Maker Movement Manifesto: Rules for Innovation in the New World of Crafters, Hackers, and Tinkerers from McGraw-Hill.

If you're a guitarist, or know a guitarist, you probably know just how many guitar effects there are out there -- but what if you could design your own effects? [J Rodriguez] has just released his ...

De toutes les percées technologiques de cette décennie, l'imprimante 3D me semble l'une des plus intéressantes.

Last week, I asked you to read an early document in hacking history: The Mentor’s “A Hacker Manifesto,” also called “The Conscience of a Hacker.” What follows is my analysis of the essay. I invite you to join me in a discussion in the comments: post your responses to the piece, your questions, your objections, anything! Now, lets take a trip back to the 80′s…

The recently announced Project Ara from Motorola is a groundbreaking  news for all the open source community.

Si l’impression 3D se rend de plus en plus accessible aux particuliers, franchir le pas n’est pas toujours facile. Produits encore peu disponibles, assez chers, manque de connaissances dans la modélisation...

ABS and PLA are the backbones of the 3D printing world. They're both easy to obtain and are good enough for most applications. They are not, however, the be-all, end-all filaments for all your 3D printing needs.

I think we can all agree that the evolution of 3D printing technology thus far has been stunning. But I wanted to know what specific ways entrepreneurs are actually looking to use the ...

Several of the biggest brains in 3D printing joined Quartz for a discussion about the future of the technology at General Assembly in New York City on July 16. Here are the three most interesting things we learned.

A brand new method of additive manufacturing. This patent-pending method allows for creating 3D objects on any given working surface independently of its inclination and smoothness, and without a need of additional support structures. Conventional methods of additive manufacturing have been affected both by gravity and printing environment: creation of 3D objects on irregular, or non-horizontal surfaces has so far been treated as impossible . By using innovative extrusion technology we are now able to neutralize the effect of gravity during the course of the printing process. This method gives us a flexibility to create truly natural objects by making 3D curves instead of 2D layers. Unlike 2D layers that are ignorant to the structure of the object, the 3D curves can follow exact stress lines of a custom shape. Finally, our new out of the box printing method can help manufacture structures of almost any size and shape.

Is now the right time to buy a 3D printer, or is it a pointless investment if you don't know how to use the 3D software to design objects for it?

Voici une initiative intéressante de deux marques pour transformer tout objet en un instrument ou contrôleur MIDI : JoyLabz et Feelyoursound.

The Galileo computer is an unenclosed circuit board that's a little larger than a credit card, and uses Intel's extremely low-power Quark processor. The board is a competitor to the popular $25 Raspberry Pi open-source PC, and is targeted at the community of makers and enthusiasts who make computing devices ranging from robots and health monitors to home media centers and PCs.

Les makers étaient au cœur des questionnements de la 5e édition de Lift France, qui s’est tenu à Marseille les 15 et 16 octobre 2013, sur le thème “Produire autrement”.

From your desk to space, 3D printing technology is raising a whole host of new possibilities. These four were presented at the Inside 3D Printing conference in San Jose.

The age of 3D printing, when every object so created can be personalized, will increase the need for tags to keep track of everything. Happily, the same 3D printing process used to produce an object can simultaneously generate an internal, invisible tag, say scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research.

You’ve heard it before: 2011 2012 2013 is the year of 3-D printing. The future is here! The individual will wrench manufacturing power from the global industrial complex! Basement hobbyists, programmers, and nerds unite!

Here's what's holding back 3D printing, the technology that's supposed to revolutionize manufacturing and countless other industries: patents.