maker spaces

What motivates makers in open source hardware development?

By rnd-admin
on 14 January, 2021

"What motivates highly skilled people with closely related daily jobs to contribute to open source hardware projects, in their spare time?" ask researchers J. Piet Hausberg and Sebastian Spaeth

Museum of Making shows movement still relevant today

By rnd-admin
on 14 January, 2021

The world’s first factory, in Derby, UK has been opened as a museum to celebrate the role of the maker as a driver of innovation.

Digital fabrication maker response to COVID-19

By rnd-admin
on 14 January, 2021

The rapid spread of Covid-19 has led to an unprecedented bottom-up, distributed, frugal innovation response from individuals and maker communities worldwide who have rapidly developed and distributed crisis-critical items, filling shortages and providing a stop-gap solution for the disrupted...

Valuing and comparing small portfolios

Many of the tools used in valuing and selecting projects are only really applicable...
The challenge of applying TRIZ tool kit for ideation

TRIZ (the theory of inventive problem solving) provides a logical approach to developing creativity...
Would an analogy help?

nalogies are a useful tool for creative problem solving, to help one move away...
Improving Product Features: When is More Less?

Different types of feature have different effects on customer satisfaction - analysis by Quality...
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)

To fail fast can save enormous waste later in the product lifecycle. Failure Mode...