So much great coverage of the ingenious iPhone Killer, hatched by Berlin’s Open Design maven Ronen Kadushin. The CAD files are all CC BY NS SA licensed, and you know what? It’s interoperable with newer iPhone and even iPad models. Enough has been said elsewhere, but I’m sure you’ll get a kick out of it.
Image: iPhone Killer by Ronen Kadushin / CC BY NC SA 3.0
Open Design City by tracy the astonishing / CC BY-SA
We’re into the final stretches of prototyping, and there’s been a lot of good projects and ideas bubbling out. Lately we’ve been based at the newly launched Open Design City, a creative space at Berlin’s betahaus where makers can rent time and space on the machines and in the workshop. There have been some awesome outputs so far, including the infamous bioplastic wallets that landed tinkerer Jay Cousins on BoingBoing,
Here’s a sneak-peak at what we’re planning for the DMY Maker Lab so far. Please feel free to drop in on June 9-13 and join the workshops. If you have an idea for a session, please drop us a line, and we’ll get you on the schedule!
The DMY Maker Lab is a celebration of Open Design through practice, presentations, and collaborative action, created by instigators and participants alike. It was held at the DMY International Design Festival from 9-13 June 2010.
Open Design is about developing, adapting, modifying and building through new tools, labor and material economies. It blurs the barriers between product and artifact, delivering objects in beta and ever-evolving.