Next Thing Co. Releases “World’s First” $9 Computer
Cheaper and more powerful than Raspberry Pi B+, “Chip” by Next Thing Co. could be the next revolution in single-board computing.
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Get to Know Onion Omega, a Tiny New Dev Board
The Onion Omega, a promising open hardware development platform, blew through its Kickstarter goal this week, where its promise to make hardware development easy for software developers seemed to resonate with backers. “We are strong believers of open source and we strive to give back to the open source community,” wrote the Onion Omega team. “All hardware schematics, […]
4-in-1 DrawBot Decorates Walls, Floors, Eggs, More
The mDrawbot is a girder-based construction kit that lets you create a number of different drawbot configurations, from wallbot to eggbot.
BIOFABRICATE: There’s a bio-revolution on the horizon!
If you missed BIOFABRICATE you missed out! Researchers, artists, designers and entrepreneurs are growing building materials, packaging, and lighting products from mushrooms. They’re painting with bacteria, dying cloth with microalgae and growing clothing from kombucha. Plus, get the scoop the programmable materials library being built with Autodesk’s Project Cyborg and learn to GIY!
Fab Labs @ 10
Fab Labs are a global community of local workshops that enable invention by providing access to tools and for digital fabrication education and enrichment, which has grown to over 250 labs worldwide in ten years.
BeagleBone Black is Back
The challenge of finding a BeagleBone Black board is likely a concern of the past.
MinnowBoard Raises the Bar on Embedded Computing
Minnowboard is a new Open Source microcontroller board that is going after the Raspberry Pi market not by emulating the popular RasPi, but by blowing it out of the water with a four-inch $200 mini PC running Ångström Linux on an Intel Atom CPU.