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The unsustainable Makers 22/03/2010 Abstract The Makers is the latest novel of the American science fiction writer, blogger and Silicon Valley intellectual Cory Doctorow. Set in the 2010s, the novel describes the possible impact of the present trend towards the migration of modes of production and organization that have emerged online into the sphere of material production. Called New Work, this movement is indebted to a new maker culture that attracts people into a kind of neo-artisan, high tech mode of production.

A CAD prog with API that could be made into Flows-capable?

Besides the standard object types such as annotations, meshes and parts objects, FreeCAD also offers the amazing possibility to build 100% python-scripted objects, called Python Features. Those objects will behave exactly as any other FreeCAD object, can be saved in a document and opened on any other installation of FreeCAD, since the python code that defines the object is also saved in the document.

A custom Ubuntu distribution that addresses needs of "creatives": offers 2D, 3D, robotics, hardware, and many other interface options. Help system uses freemind mindmapping.

Cadsoft EAGLE is available from http://www.cadsoftusa.com/

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Impact - a Free Explicit Dynamic Finite Element ProgramCrushed profile

Impact is an open source finite element program suite which can be used to predict most dynamic events such as car crashes or metal sheet punch operations. They usually involve large deformations and high velocities.

Simulations are made on a virtual three dimensional model which can be created with a pre-processor or with the built-in Fembic language. Results are viewed in a post-processor.