“What exactly did you say you were trying to do again?” the ranger asked me as we stood on a seawall at Fort McHenry, taking turns winding in hundreds of feet of kite string attached to a nine-foot ...

DIY reigns in the virtual world. With so many old points of friction removed, we can freely and cheaply build our own blogs, e-books, and Web magazines. But making real, live stuff still seems like a ...

The cover of Time as Person of the Year can’t be far away for Limor Fried. As the founder of one of the most popular open source hardware companies, inventor, maker, and visionary Ms. Fried has to be ...

It’s not every day you see something so weird and so open source? Yeah people. What we see here is not the next generation of vertical electric vehicles, but some wacky idea that you can build in your ...

Images of the new version of the Open Source DARwIn-OP Robot have been discovered on the DARwIn-OP support site photos by the RoboSavvy forum. The DARwIn-OP Robot is truly a DIY open source project as ...

A portable and powerful water turbine you can build yourself for just $50. It’s open source, easy to assemble, and can ...

Italian open source enthusiasts Francisco Liu and Ampelio Macchi have teamed up to design the Tabby DIY car. In recent years we've seen a popular surge in open source furniture models, tricycles and ...

At first blush, open source compliance may seem like a daunting task. But with a little research, review, and education, you will discover that compliance is not as difficult as first thought. First, ...

If you follow the desktop 3D printer market, it probably won’t surprise you to hear that nearly every 3D printer on display at the inaugural East Coast RepRap Festival (ERRF) was made in China. Even ...

Dutch duo Daniel Venneman and Mark van der Net have created an open source home kit that allows DIY advocates to build and customize their own micro house. The Hermit House features a unique zigzag ...

The Founding Fathers may never have considered digital independence, but you can. Technology’s marching toward smaller, non-upgradable devices and oodles of free cloud storage threatens to chain you ...