Cartesian & delta robots, RepRap and a new hackerspace

I know its been quiet on the blogging front here for a while but that doesn’t mean a lot hasn’t been happening, I’ve had my head down in a number of projects, I need to rebalance my IRC, Twitter, usergroups and everything better! After meeting some 3D printing folk at OggCamp last year we decided … Continue reading »

iBOM Part 4 – Expanding the market

Production on the backend isn’t the only thing holding back opensource hardware, getting from innovation and good ideas into any sort of distributed production requires initial investment. In some cases it can be very small, but unlike opensource software there are physical requirements of pcbs, parts and tools that have very real costs! the iBom … Continue reading »

iBOM part 2

Ok so say we have iBOMs, this in itself could be extended further to make it even more powerful. Imagine that all of the items in an iBOM could be iBOMs themselves from individual components through to component modules and entire projects. Then we would be able to assemble modular constructions of arbitarly complex parts … Continue reading »

Intelligent Bom

iBOM Part 1 I found my self in conversations recently around the progression of OpenSource Hardware development and moving it’s production forward. I have long been interested in distributed open production and have talked about this for some time. In a recent conversation with one of my colleagues (Ken) about how his project Nanode could … Continue reading »