Dezeen rounded up six open-source gadget designs, from a DIY navigation tool to a blender that uses regular household.
The first image shows one of the open-source gadgets featured in the roundup.
This stuff is cool but i always wonder how many of these are actually “weekend build” vs “own a 3d printer + soldering station + infinite patience” builds. the household-jar blender idea rules though, that’s the kind of practical hack i’d actually try.
That “weekend build” label usually hides the ugly part: sourcing the random fasteners/bearings, then doing three reprints because the tolerances are off.
Yeah, “weekend build” usually means “I already had a drawer of M3 screws and a printer I’ve tuned for a year. ” The projects that feel genuinely approachable are the ones that ship a real BOM with vendor links (or at least a standard hardware kit) and call out printer/material assumptions up front.
