Creativity has a new champion; open source. Access to ‘free’ software, along with low cost hardware is enabling anyone to realise things that they could have only previously dreamt of and this has the potential to help change society for the better. The realm of open source can be both inviting and confusing; inviting because it really is as good as it sounds and confusing because, well if something sounds too good to be true, then it normally is, right?