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"Making should not be anything new". But maybe it already is

Making shouldn’t be anything new, but the maker movement is pretending otherwise. Or so they said. Are YOU sure?

Open Source home appliances!

If you can only fund one project this year, please put this in your short list:

About "managing personal fabrication on a mass scale"

There is a post on the P2P blog about the (digital) Fabrication Divide which, on one point, is not entirely correct.I am talking of this specific sentence: “The key question that hasn’t been asked is how will humanity manage personal fabrication on a mass scale” That key question has been asked, by me and all the other members of the EU-funded DiDIY (Digital DIY) Project, ran from 2015 to 2017. We also provided some answers, which are listed below.

Swatantra'17: software freedom, and awareness of larger picture

A couple of weeks ago I attended the Swatantra'17 conference in Trivandrum, Kerala, and came back with a lot of food for thought.

On Digital DIY, and its place in India

A couple of weeks ago I gave a talk at the Swatantra17 conference in Trivandrum, Kerala, about “Open, Digital DIY manufacturing across countries and cultures” (here are abstract and slides) ). This is a guest post by Mrs Revathi Kollegala, social entrepreneur and collaborative economy advocate, containing her feedback to my slides.