Marco Fioretti's blog

(update 2016/2/2: please see details of TWO public meetings below!)

The DiDIY Project is happy to announce the first edition of several fact sheets about Digital DIY (DiDIY). The purpose of these fact sheets is to present, in the simplest possible manner, the main facts about DiDIY as identified in the research activities of the Project.

Last month I have presented a DiDIY paper, written with Wouter Tebbens, at the SURAP conference on Sustainability of Rural Areas in Practice.

The goal of the DiDIY Project is to study the Digital Do-It-Yourself (Digital DIY or DiDIY) phenomenon, that is Do-It-Yourself design, manufacturing and usage of physical objects (but also music, and other non-material creative works) that is only possible thanks to computers, computer-controlled tools (e.g.

No, this is NOT about 3D printed weapons (though we do study those too)

(French translation, kindly provided by Bernard Schoenacker, of this request)

Les objectifs du projet DiDIY (Digital DIY – bricolage numérique) sont, entre autres, de faire un état des lieu sur les points suivants:

The objectives of the Digital DIY (DiDIY) project include studying the current:

Following the presentation on the same topic recently held at the free/Open Source Software in academia conference, where we presented both the general and legal issues related to Digital DIY, the DiDIY project will participate this week at the Maker Faire in Rome.

The Free Open Source Software for Academia (fOSSa) is a yearly France-based conference about Free/Libre Open Source and beyond: Open education, open collaboration, open data, open standard, open hardware & … open-ness.