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Launched in June,SparkTruck bills itself as “an educational build-mobile”that has spent the summer traveling across the US with “cool 21st-century shop tools,spreading the fun of hands-on...
Thanks to the public’s voracious appetite for historic cookbooks, the University of Iowa Libraries has recently reached a new milestone for its DIY History crowdsourcing site: 30,000 pages...
Street Seats, a new project from urban planning and design firm Street Plans Collaborative, pays tribute to the importance of such humble streetside accommodation by crowdsourcing and mapping...
The motivation behind Ushahidi’s new “Check-In’s” feature, for example, is to democratize platforms like Foursquare. There’s no reason why others can’t have their own Foursquares and customize...
Success stories are everywhere. The Hidden Radio & Bluetooth Speaker, a recent project by John VDN and Vitor Santa Maria, has received raves from Wired.com, Core77 and BoingBoing. Designers...
Snapguide is a new iOS app and web service that allows people to create visual guides using videos, photos and words on a mobile device. The crowdsourced guides let anyone share their knowledge...
An interview with Riley on what motivated her to found Windowfarms and how other businesses can — and should — take advantage of the R&DIY model.
Annika recently created a new project with FunkKit’s Stickers for Sneakers, but decided to use the stickers on brogue shoes rather than sneakers. In her post she presents easy animated instructions...
According to Crowd Valley co-founder Alessandro Ravanetti, Crowd Valley aims to provide the infrastructure for “a new, democratic crowdfunding market”. Crowd Valley concept is for those who are...
A group of driven, DIY-types from around the world are helping to bring hydroponic systems home. In her TED talk “A Garden in My Apartment” (below), Britta Riley of Windowfarms – vertical food...
Most Geiger counters for personal use cost around $200, prohibiting many from measuring radiation for themselves. That's where non-profit organisation radiation-watch.org has stepped in....
In early February, the management team behind The Indie Game Magazine acquired the indie game, crowd-funding site, 8-Bit Funding. Mike Gnade, owner of the Indie Game Magazine, commented saying,...
The crowdsourcing model lets the community vote for projects during the design phase to help designers create the best projects and ensure builders get what they want and need. This...
A papercraft hand-animated video describing SparkTruck !
Spectrometers are widely used by astronomers and chemists to identify unknown materials. By making the tool more accessible, an open-research community called Public Laboratory for Open Technology...
Now, the University of Iowa Libraries has made the task exponentially easier with the launch of DIY History, a crowdsourcing initiative that allows volunteers to transcribe the Szathmary Culinary...
This paper analyzes the current debate over crowdsourced/do–it–yourself (DIY) design. Specifically, it highlights underlying tensions between discourse within the professional graphic design...
On top of Tad's thoughts, he believes that it is best to democratize the process and let consumers participate in the process itself -- from start to finish.
Inviting more than 34,000 Facebook fans to be part of the collective global project, the task was to show what they could do with Marimekko fabrics. The most interesting ideas were published on the...
Is SMALL a MIGHT in green. Low cost green energy solution requires little investment and can be less cumbersome for assembly as a DIY. Does this small innovative concept to generate hot water for...
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