‘open source’

An Industrial Design Experiment In Open Source Awesomeness: The 100K Stray Toasthed Pull Toy

23 Sep, 2009 by in DESIGN

If you could shake yourself into a dazzling display of idea-producing power, you would still have just that, an idea. Some get lucky and have a prototype, but mostly we just sit on our ideas.

C. Sven Johnson is going one step further with the 100K Stray Toasthed Pull Toy project. He has taken an idea, turned it on to the public and is going open source baby. First, go support the project, then see the process that will make you want to watch what happens and maybe even try it yourself.
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User Comment: Opening Up CAD Standards. Cool or Not Cool?

30 Sep, 2008 by in TECH

Each week, I’m going to start posting a comment from one of you wonderful readers that take the time to comment in the posts. I see a lot of discussion being missed, and that is just sad, don’t ya think? Here’s the first one.

In a previous article on OpenGL and Direct3D, a commenter named Mike made a really good point about the open source state of CAD and API standards. I agree with him, but there’s a lot more to it than software being tied to an OS and getting it all for free. Think of what companies like Google are doing.

Do we need open standard for 3D CAD?
Here’s what Mike thinks. What’s your opinion?
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