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Happy Birthday, Open Know-Where!

Don’t you LOVE when people use tech to solve REAL problems?

Please support every "Polar Bear" like this

Because we need Open Hardware manufacturing. A lot.

Why and how Amazon Counter could be good for the world

If it re-done right, that is. Back in early 2020 (*), a friend of mine asked online what people thought about Amazon Counter. My first reply greatly surprised him, because he knows my opinions about Amazon, and that reply started with: “This really sounds like a consumer’s dream, and a green one too." The conversation continued as follows (edited for clarity). Friend: Did you call it green because it would enable ‘cosmo-local’ production, that is small-scale manufacturing of products designed once and then reused globally?

Robotic Blacksmiths? Yeah!

When hammer and anvil meet bits. Possibly, everywhere.

The silent change in the nature of design

Who are designers? Are they ALWAYS designers?

One way to give new life to struggling cities

.. is Digital DIY, of course.