Bug labs had a well attended get together in NYC, this was the first time they’ve shown real hardware in public, so it was pretty interesting to talk to their CEO Peter and their marketing fellow Jeremy about where they’re going… The goal is to make it easy for people to use modules like GPS, […]
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Nice quotes about the DIY world and open source hardware from Wired’s Chris Anderson in the EE Times about UAVs… “Instead of a small number of products for millions, it’s a case of millions of products for a small number” of people, he said. “The monolithic software model hasn’t addressed this. That’s what small companies […]
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Semitone is a cool open dimmer project – The aim of this project is the development of comfortable standalone digital light dimmers for home use, which are inexpensive, easy to build, yet very feature-rich and configurable. All development details, such as the microcontroller operating systems (firmware), schematics, and documentation, are freely available under the GNU […]
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Ambient Devices is now offering access to their datacasting chipset (you could use it to add auto-time set, weather and other net data via radio to your device)… We’ve included Ambient in our “What is Open source hardware” article. It’s $995, and the schematics / layout for the DATA-W1 reference implementation, as well as the […]
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Jonathan Schwartz from Sun on the new GPL’d SPARC – We’re announcing the fastest microprocessor we’ve ever shipped this week – delivering 89.6 Ghz of parallel computing power on a single chip – running standard Java applications and open source OS’s. Simultaneously, we’ve said we’re entering the commodity marketplace, and opening the chip up to […]
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Remember that open source hardware “Digg button”? It’s a simple kit to teach soldering and basic electronics (I co-developed it with Adafruit and Digg)… and part of the goal was to donate proceeds to the EFF, the first $500 was just sent off, this might be the first time an open source hardware project sent […]
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Some Defcon posts from around the web, mostly Hack a day – Joe Grand MAKE author and tech advisory board member out did himself again with this year’s badges – photos and files ahead… Defcon badge (open source hardware): Defcon badge hacking (Wired, photos from Dave) – Link. The Defcon Badge – Link. Defcon badge […]
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