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A growing movement that combines open source design with sustainability is creating an exciting alternative to profit-driven, proprietary sustainability products. As we face urgent issues like climate change, the ability of open source communities to quickly and inexpensively create solutions makes increasing sense. 
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This guest blog was written by Chris Palmer, Co-Founder of Awesome Shield. At Awesome Shield, our mission is to teach kids about technology, and empower them to build it themselves. This is why we...
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Over the last few years we’ve seen an explosion of “open” models, which emerged as a result of several different factors.
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Making a giant octopus is way more enlightening than taking the SAT or Sociology 101.
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Shellmo is powered by an Arduino board and the parts can be downloaded and printed. The design files can be modified using Blender.
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Fashion is a $1.2 trillion global industry, with more than $250 billion spent annually in the United States. Behind these big numbers is a big negative social and environment impact.
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Last week IT-oLogy hosted the IT-oLogy Open Hardware Summer Camp, a four day program where twelve students got the chance to learn, practice, and play with cool technology like 3D printing, Hummingbird Robotics, and Rasberry Pi. A favorite activity of the students? Getting scanned to create 3D printed busts! The scans were used by IT-oLogy’s 3D printing machine to create bright green busts, which the students were happy to show off for our camera! Can you see the resemblance?
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Littlebits is disrupting the open hardware space. It's "an open source library of electronic modules that snap together with magnets for prototyping, learning, and fun." The company is the invention of Ayah Bdeir, an MIT graduate and TED senior fellow, and was founded in September 2011.
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