Kits to fund Hackerspaces

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[Overflo] recently tipped us about HackerspaceShop; his plan to help fund the Viennese and European hackerspaces by creating a marketplace for electronic kits. The idea is to not only sell kits, but to also create an easy way for others to sell their own kits through the platform, which is pretty awesome if you ask us. Their kit they sent us to play with is a sun tracking flower developed by … [Read more...]

Oomlout’s guide to kitting

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The team at oomlout has continued to post all the methods they use in their manufacturing process. This time around it's the kitting process: how they actually packaged 30 identical SERB kits in an efficient fashion. We covered their wire cutting bot before, but they've got other dedicated machines like a sticker cutter. The stickers are used to remove all the cut acrylic pieces from the laser … [Read more...]