MakerBeam
Over on Kickstarter there’s a project called MakerBeam to make an open-source building kit. Something like Meccano, but open-source, and based on a T-slot aluminum profile. They promise us it will be good for robots. Open-source fire-breathing robot spiders? We can only hope.
On the Kickstarter project site you can view in an informative video of the kit.
As they say, "We’ve never seen a hammer company go broke because hammers aren’t patented; we think we’ll do okay."
They aim to go public with kits at Maker Faire 2010.
Check it out.
::all text and images courtesy of Sam Putman at Makerbeam
Posted: October 8th, 2009
at 12:46pm by Koookiecrumbles
Tagged with hacking, Kickstarter, MakerBeam, Meccano, open-source, hardware, Maker Faire, Sam Putman
Categories: myninjaplease,computers,web,robots,mnp is for the children,weaponry,gear,design,diy,development,internets,open source
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