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FabriCamp Lx 1

Open Source Design and Making

I always seem to find out about these events after they've occured. but I'll be watching for the next one.

There seems to be more and more open-source materials for the 3D world rather than "just" software.

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SketchChair

The furniture designer in me loves this idea.

open-source software that takes a sketch of a chair design and turns it into a set of files that can use a Computer controlled router and make your design.

or run it on a craft-robo knife cutter and make a model, make loads of models!

http://www.sketchchair.cc/

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Video Editior for Windows Platform

Hi Team

Please can you offer any advice on suitable OS Video Editing tools for Windows Platforms?

Your help appreciated

Regards

Kevin

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Arduino - open source electronics

http://www.arduino.cc/

More Open-Source stuff that you can pick up.

Being a Technologist, I love kit (though I wouldn't want to pick out curtains) and I love the way that Open-Source doesn't just apply to software but to hardware as well.

Time to dig my soldering iron out!

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Gravity Simulator

http://gravit.slowchop.com/

screenshot of gravit

Simulate Gravity doesn't mean being able to walk to the shops like you're Neil Armstrong on the moon.  Its a clever application to model the gravitational effects of sub-atomic particles, so useful for Physics students perhaps but another of its selling points is that it "looks pretty"

Celestia - Space simulation software

http://www.shatters.net/celestia/

celesia icon

Celestia is "free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions."

Celestia lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.

It runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

OpenEducationDisc

 http://www.theopendisc.com/education/

 

The OpenEducationDisc is a compendium of software produced with students from KS1-5 in mind.  Now published on a DVD, there is something here for everyone.  600 were produced for the BETT show and went like hot-cakes.

Marble - a virtual globe

http://edu.kde.org/marble/

Marble is a geographical atlas and a virtual desktop globe which lets you quickly explore other places on our planet.

You can use Marble to look up places, to easily create maps, measure distances and to retrieve detail information about locations that you have just heard about in the news or on the Internet.

Scratch - a graphical programming tool

http://scratch.mit.edu/

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.

As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

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