I needed to combine 3D printed pieces together and make the surface in some cases a bit more smooth. I found an article in the web about making ABS glue and decided to test it. The process was simple and you […]

The concept of Community manager is understood to include various tasks and responsibilities. Still the image of what community manager is, varies  a lot. Some think that community manager is a person who takes […]

I have conducted twice a survey on hackerspaces, makerspaces, fablabs and other DIY communities. Based on those responses I have written several posts (here’s one) and one scientific article which is about to be […]

I’ve been involved with 3D printing and related for some time now. Still I’m just starting to get a grip how big it will be and how much it will most likely change our lives. I’ve read some writings which have […]

Fundamental idea of 3D Printing Network is to bring together 3D printer manufacturers, CAD and other 3D related application developers, existing volunteer based communities. What is 3D printing Network?

In […]

I was in Helsinki Tizen Summit April 12th, which was small scale closed event for Samsung representatives and major software and system players in Finland and in some cases around the world. Participant companies […]

Depending on your viewpoint, 3D printing, 3D manufacturing or if you prefer peer production is what will change production of goods in the future. The change has already started. Ponoko, shapeways and several […]

In previous blog entry I introduced Peer Production/Community survey domain p4.ossoil.com. While I was finalizing the content in the pages, I also contacted Michel Bauwens from P2P Foundation and asked “perhaps […]

Ever wanted to know what kind of cool stuff biohackers do? How about what’s the attitude towards external funding in different kind of DIY communities? Or what’s the most preferred way to handle space rent?

Now […]

During the past decades, hacking has mostly been associated with software development. Furthermore, most but not all hacker generations (from MIT hackers to Open source) have been introvert; participants have been […]

Writings, newspaper and journal articles[21, 3, 18, 8], discussions[7], conference presentations[22, 6], guidelines[16] about and for hackerspaces has been done by several authors and hackerspace members. […]

The past ‘hackerspace’ surveys 2010 and 2011 have created a great data base for longitudinal study. Now that my funding for PhD survey is about to finish (after all it was just for one year), I’m considering to […]

For some time now I have been pushing an idea of a new hacker generation called ‘Peer Production’. It is a continuum to hacker generations identified by other scholars. Somewhat good presentation of the […]

Different device vendors, tool manufacturers and other sectors of industry are facing same situation in which music and movie industry have failed. Music and movie industry are in hopeless battle with the masses […]

Fabbing Foudation – sounds like fun and something big. Fun like hacking, ‘fabbing’, doing stuff, creating something. Big like Mozilla and Linux. Concerning my ideas, I’m not sure about the latter. Or at least […]

Members of Open Coral project have been ‘divided’ to three teams: Core Developers, Concept Designers and UX Team. Similar team formation is common in open source projects. Of course the amount and names of teams […]

Open Coral Daemon (OCD) is intended to handle information retrieval from multiple sources (URLs) asynchronously. In the future it will most likely have a lot of other tasks as well, but let’s start with one. […]

We have lured in around 8 to 10 people to participate in development. We have graphics designers, UX specialists, concept designers and a few code developers. Nevertheless this project does not look like a normal […]

Here’s some initial ideas for the database structure regarding several tables/objects such as user, projects, blog and mailing list messages. Note that this is just first iteration and most likely will contain […]

At first I was not going to write about what big and small events took place 2011 in my life, what I participated in and so on. Then I thought why not. It will offer me a chance to sob and joy So, here are some […]