Open Manufacturing Digest #1

[Nathan Cravens]

Selections from Open Manufacturing on G+. Follow and share treats.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/104410043479184459617/104410043479184459617/posts


MIT's Smart Handheld Woodworking Tool Makes Precise Cuts Automatically
http://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2012-08/mits-new-smart-woodworking-tool-makes-routing-more-precise

TEDxOjai - Behrokh Khoshnevis - Contour Crafting: Automated Construction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdbJP8Gxqog&feature=player_embedded

Charles Eisenstein. Permaculture and the Myth of Scarcity
http://charleseisenstein.net/permaculture-and-the-myth-of-scarcity/

3D printed lightweight robotic hand wins 2012 R&D 100
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20120809-3d-printed-lightweight-robotic-hand-wins-2012-RD-100.html

3D Printer Community Survey Results - Manufacturing in Motion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlk2g__L1cw

Russia building the world's largest Fablabs network in two years
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20120809-russia-building-the-worlds-largest-fablabs-network-in-two-years.html

Meet the Guy Whose Tech Will Transform Solar Power...and He's Giving
it Away - Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2012/08/06/meet-the-guy-whose-tech-will-transform-solar-power-and-hes-giving-it-away/

Hackitat - A film about political hacking, world wide
http://www.indiegogo.com/hackitat-a-film-about-political-hacking-world-wide

Alicia Gibb on the Status of the Open Source Hardware Movement in 2012
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/alicia-gibb-on-the-status-of-the-open-source-hardware-movement-in-2012/2012/08/05

Creativity in Poverty - Hindustan Times
http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/India/Ideas-man-professor-in-quest-for-India-s-rural-inventions/Article1-904116.aspx

First open source powder-based 3D printer
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20120803-first-open-source-powder-based-3d-printer.html

Transformational Leadership In Agile Manufacturing: Wikispeed - Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/08/01/transformational-leadership-in-agile-manufacturing-wikispeed/

Did You Know : Tiger Stone Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b7x5PGABLE

Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries goes to the first Industrial
Business Advisory Council
http://www.nycedc.com/blog-entry/announcing-industrial-business-advisory-council

Human Workers, Managed by an Algorithm
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428440/human-workers-managed-by-an-algorithm/

Mahoro robot performs dangerous lab work with more accuracy and in half the time
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20120730-mahoro-robot-performs-dangerous-lab-work-with-more-accuracy-and-in-half-the-time.html

Village Telco » Mesh Potato. Enabling free telecommunications.
http://villagetelco.org/mesh-potato/

AutoNanoFarm
http://blog.automicrofarm.com/post/28074812053/autonanofarm

Why we need Open, Hackable Materials now – An Interview with Catarina Mota
http://meedabyte.com/2012/07/26/why-we-need-open-hackable-materials-now-an-interview-with-catarina-mota/

A Suitcase-Sized, 3-in-1 CNC Multi-Tool
http://www.core77.com/blog/digital_fabrication/a_suitcase-sized_3-in-1_cnc_multi-tool_23007.asp

Open Hardware Startups Page
http://www.reddit.com/r/hwstartups

Race Against the Machine: Andrew McAfee at TEDxBoston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfMGyCk3XTw&feature=player_embedded

Japan’s Modi-Corp Unveils Build-It-Yourself Pius Electric Car!
http://inhabitat.com/japans-modi-corp-unveils-build-it-yourself-pius-electric-car/

TDK Develops Ultra-Thin Receiving Coil Unit For Wireless Power Transfer
http://efytimes.com/e1/86790/TDK-Develops-UltraThin-Receiving-Coil-Unit-For-Wireless-Power-Transfer

Now available via Kickstarter: An off-grid battery & solar kit
http://gigaom.com/cleantech/now-available-via-kickstarter-an-off-grid-battery-solar-kit/

New MIT chip harvests energy from three sources
http://www.gizmag.com/mit-chip-three-sources-energy/23259/

Welcome Chris Anderson as our Keynote Speaker
http://summit.oshwa.org/2012/07/08/welcome-chris-anderson-as-our-keynote-speaker/

Automate or Perish - Technology Review
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428402/automate-or-perish/

App turns smartphones into routers for peer-to-peer shared mobile
internet coverage
http://www.springwise.com/telecom_mobile/app-turns-smartphones-routers-shared-mobile-internet-coverage/

CMU's AndyVision Robot Is In Your Store, Doing Your Inventory - IEEE Spectrum
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/cmu-andyvision-inventory-robot

How Open Source Hardware Is Driving the 3D-Printing Industry
http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2012/07/how-open-source-hardware-is-driving-the-3d-printing-industry.php

WikiHouse / Browse Library
http://www.wikihouse.cc/library

Rice researchers invent paintable battery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJDI5cAdhys&feature=player_embedded

11 Months, 3000 pictures and a lot of coffee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daVDrGsaDME&feature=player_embedded

Internet of food: Arduino-based, urban aquaponics in Oakland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IryIOyPfTE

3D Printed Oscillating Steam Engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIfqFAG5olU&feature=player_embedded

New algorithm allows robots and humans to work side by side.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/robot-manufacturing-0612.html

[Bryan Bishop]

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Nathan Cravens <knu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Selections from Open Manufacturing on G+. Follow and share treats.

These all look like news articles, can you not send those? Just the other stuff

- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
1 512 203 0507

[Nathan Cravens]

Bryan,

Its a mix :) More other stuff would make it better. ('Other stuff':
Engineering details about things commons licensed or hacked,
exceedingly useful, ideally personally fabricated with materials from
fully automated distribution channels.)

Best.
Nathan