Blender 3.0 the highly anticipated next generation 3D modelling software is now available to download providing a free open source application for anyone to create both 2D and 3D content. The Blender ...

For decades, Blender—the open-source 3D software tool—had a quirk that distinguished it from other animation software on the market. Instead of clicking to select with the mouse or trackpad’s left ...

Seeed Studio's Amazing Hand is an open-source, 3D-printable robotic hand kit with eight degrees of freedom (8-DOF), designed ...

Open-source software tools continue to increase in popularity because of the multiple advantages they provide including lower upfront software and hardware costs, lower total-cost-of-ownership, lack ...

More than twenty years ago, Linux began wending its way out of the primordial soup that was the early Internet and ensconcing itself in servers and workstations around the world. After its creation in ...

The next version of the open source 3D modelling software Blender, being released late next month as version 2.83, will include a number of new features, tweaks, and enhancements. One of the most ...

This story was originally published Feb. 3, 1998. It is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. Open source led to a new software development and distribution model that offered ...