DIY and Opensource
I recently stumbled upon an interesting article talking about the 13 open source hardware companies making $1 million or more and ended up finding even more.
Time to recap a bit! So here is the list of companies presented in the conference (you see download the slides here too).
- Adafruit http://www.adafruit.com/
- Arduino http://www.arduino.cc/
- BeagleBoard http://beagleboard.org/
- Bug Labs http://www.buglabs.net/
- Chumby http://www.chumby.com/
- Dangerous Prototypes http://dangerousprototypes.com/
- DIY Drones http://diydrones.com/
- Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories http://www.evilmadscientist.com/
- Liquidware http://www.liquidware.com/
- Makerbot http://www.makerbot.com/
- Makershed http://www.makershed.com/
- Parallax http://www.parallax.com/
- Seeed Studios http://www.seeedstudio.com/
- Solarbotics http://www.solarbotics.com
- Sparkfun http://www.sparkfun.com
DIY Biology links:
- http://singularityhub.com/2009/10/29/open-hardware-for-molecular-biology-experiments/
- http://singularityhub.com/2009/10/19/openwetware-the-wikipedia-of-biology/
- http://singularityhub.com/2009/04/28/do-it-yourself-biohacking/
- http://openwetware.org/wiki/DNAextractionfrom_tissue
- http://diybio.org
TO SORT ...
NOTE: this post needs a serious rewrite ... and some research on DIY biology and DNA.