Tinker it now!

Crowdspirit is in beta now. This french start-up allows you to post ideas about cool electronic products you’d like to see on the market, vote or even invest money in the idea, test and recommend products to the retailers and finally, based on your contribution you might even get a share of the products revenue. Interesting, let’s see how they do.

Fritzing, an open-source initiative to support designers and artists to take the step from physical prototyping to actual product, is having a kick-off workshop in Potsdam and Massimo will be attending with most of the Arduino crew as well. Do apply!

Slightly older, last year at Euroscon, Simon Wardley of Fotango talked about the web of making things and the software implications of fabbing. The presentation file can be downloaded.