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How to Start a Robot Revolution
The future of robotics is being coded in the open. Meet the people behind the revolution.
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Common Connections: Making Robots BoringFarming for the Future
What are the farmers of tomorrow doing with open tools and principles today?
Penn Manor
An IT director, teachers, administrators, and students help bring an open educational model and a 1:1 laptop program to Penn Manor High School.
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Common Connections: Creating the ClassroomThe open source roots of robotics
Go inside the open source robotics revolution with one of the innovators who launched it.
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SubscribeStarting Small: Open Data in Chile
Makers, scholars, and artisans are using data to protect habitats and preserve heritage. This is their story.
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Open HerdwareLike Rockets
How a teacher and an afterschool club built a creative community through open leadership and transformed a school and a city in the process.
Open source and the future of hardware
Neil Gershenfeld, Ph.D., helps consumers become creators with open source hardware and software.
CO.LAB: The future is collaborative
CO.LAB teaches students how to solve problems, share ideas, and create collaboratively.
Food computer program
Melanie Shimano’s west Baltimore students are sharing what they grow and what they learn.
Franklin Middle School Futuregirls
What happens when open source principles and leadership meets dedicated middle schoolers?
A community for farm innovation
Learn how Dorn Cox, Ph.D., is using open source to connect farms and communities.
Road to A.I.
Self-driving cars are here, and it's starting to get weird. This is a story about data, decisions, and the future of an entire industry.
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Common Connections: Making Robots BoringE-nable
A global community of volunteers design, fabricate, and distribute open source 3-D-printed prosthetics for free.
The science of collective discovery
How is open hardware helping people make groundbreaking scientific discoveries?
The open patient
Two brain cancer patients open their healthcare journeys for all to see.
Art of exchange
How is Tate Exchange at Tate Modern using open source principles to transform itself into a 21st-century museum?
SPARKcon
What happens when you close city streets for a weekend and turn over control to creative people?
Because we had to
A mammoth laser cutter. An Arduino development kit. A hackerspace. Three women making art with open hardware.
A.I. Revolutionaries
Intelligent machines are taking over. But not how you might think. Meet the people behind the AI revolution.
Lessons learned from teaching young coders
Femi Owolade-Coombes discusses how the power of open source and community can unlock potential for young coders.
Jewelbots
Sara Chipps discusses innovative ways to get young girls excited about coding.
The key to coding progress
Saron Yitbarek makes the case that it's not just code that moves the tech industry forward it's also emotion.
Open source hardware and innovation
Nathan Seidle discusses how open source is good for both humanity and business.
The physical future of open source
Alicia Gibb talks about bringing open source to a new layer of products through open source hardware.
InMoov robots for good
Richard Hulskes discusses his favorite project and how the open source mindset is radically changing hardware development.
Girl Develop It
Corinne Warnshuis talks about creating open source opportunities for women.