Doayee, a team of Electronic Engineering university students from the UK, have designed and built the Nixie Tube Driver and are now on the hunt for backers on Kickstarter. The Nixie Tube Driver is an easy, open source way to add Nixie Tubes to any project that you are working on, whether that be…
Hackster’s 2016 survey of people from 104 countries discovered that under 6% of hardware developers are women – an amount that’s as distressing as it is surprising. Women are running companies, making cool projects, and designing hardware in ways that are both exciting and cutting-edge, but there’s still a divide between how the field is…
Sponsored by Developments in control electronics enable the intelligent vending machine Vending machines are a relatively unrecognized, but fast growing, market opportunity for the electronics industry. That growth is being driven by a new class of unit: the intelligent vending machine, which marries the convenience and accessibility of instant, on the spot transaction fulfillment…
Active since 2010, more than 825’000 people today on our Facebook page, Open Electronics became a reference for the open source hardware hackers and makers. Open Electronics was born as a brainchild of Futura Group Srl, a world leader in hobby electronics, pushing stronger on the open source products, software and policies. In those years,…
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About a month ago, Scality announced the open source launch of its Scality Zenko, a Multi-Cloud Data Controller. It is free to use and embed into developer applications, opening a new world of multi-cloud storage for developers. Zenko offers the same user interface, no matter what cloud deployment is being used, something that provides customers…
An overview of SmartMesh IP technology equipping the Dragonfly board from the SmartEverything family. In the previous post, you discovered how simplicity, immediateness and the support of Arduino architecture can be combined with a professional hardware for the creation of IoT applications, that is for acquiring and interchanging data not only from…
Efabless corporation, an online design platform and marketplace for community-developed intellectual property (IP) and integrated circuits (ICs), has introduced Chiplicity, an open source framework for community members to create, share, make derivatives of and commercialize mixed-signal ICs. “Chiplicity is a first of its kind and extends the efabless electronics community engineering concept from IP to…
Anyone searching for a way to get started learning the wonderful world of electronics, may be interested in a new breadboard friendly development board which has been specifically designed for beginners and can be easily used with a solder list breadboard and also supports Blocklyprop. “Parral Dev Board is an open source breadboard friendly development…
In the last few years we spoke severl times about this amazing open source camera. It’s very nice to see that this unique open source/open hardware motion picture camera system venture is really moving forward to the point where developers and early adopters alike can now already get their kit (but the operating system of the…
Google Cardboard created a landslide in virtual reality (VR). A cheap, accessible way to experience an entry-level version of the technology that lead to wide-spread awareness. Back in May 2017, Aryzon launched Kickstarter campaign with plans to do the same for augmented reality (AR), and few days from completion, sits at more than 400% its funding goal:…
A few weeks ago, the first open source satellite made its way into space. The Libre Space Foundation, the organization behind the satellite, is dedicated to developing libre space hardware. The cube sat in question is UPSat, a 2U cubesat that is completely Open Source. Everything from the chassis to the firmware is completely Open, with all the…
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