Innovation through collaboration
Minimax, a handheld interactive projector, exemplifies the potential of open-source hardware. Developed through the EU’s OpenNext initiative with Danish Design Center and Wikifactory, the project integrates industrial design, coding, and object-tracking to create an innovative product. It showcases collaborative, low-cost, and rapid prototyping facilitated by the global maker community.
Combining diverse expertise
The open-tech movement, or the ‘maker' movement, democratizes access to tools for hardware development. As a part of the OpenNext initiative, the aim of the project team was to prototype and refine a workflow for tech innovation, which can bridge the gap between design, tinkering and prototyping, and, importantly, leverage the power of the collective open-tech community to foster ideas, share knowledge and remove the siloed walls around classical hardware development.
We've leveraged the power of the maker community to do hands on test at fast speed through rapid prototyping
Collaborative prototyping
Minimax's development embraced open-source methodologies. We designed every aspect, from branding to technical workflows, while utilizing the local Maker Space in Copenhagen to accelerate iteration and testing with community feedback.
Minimax's form language of soft tech
A new language of interaction
Minimax emerged as a testament to the power of collective design. It demonstrates a scalable, cost-efficient model for hardware innovation and inspired future applications of open-source in technology, further expanding the possibilities for democratized hardware development.
Manyone has been a great sparring partner to Open Next and been able to give feedback on all the tools developed through the program. At the same time it is no secret that the high quality of work they have delivered through the demonstrator process, continuously challenged the potential of open-source hardware.
Sidsel Kjøller Damkjær
Project Lead
Open Next
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