Good news as internet giant PayPal nominated Danese Cooper, long time Open Source Hardware advocate as Head of Open Source: PayPal has hired programmer, computer scientist, and open source champion Danese Cooper as its first head of open source. The eBay unit is increasingly turning to open source as it revamps its technology platform, recently…
This is a pretty old (2011) project, but we never covered it. Maybe a post on Open Source CNC machines is mature! Did you know that our 3Drag now sports CNC features? The DIYLILCNC Project The DIYLILCNC project is a free & open-source set of plans for an inexpensive, fully functional 3-axis CNC mill that…
Spotted from the Facebook Channel of Maker Faire European Edition: Second edition will happen again in Rome! Hello Friends Rome Maker Faire the II Europan Edition is set in motion!!! Call 4 Maker will start 29 th of March and will end the 25 th of May. Spread the news! via (4) World Wide Rome…
A new Open Source Board for Linux: this time from Element14. The RIoTboard is an open source platform based on an i.MX 6Solo applications processor, using an ARM® Cortex®-A9 architecture. The platform is ideal for Android and GNU/Linux development and is designed for and supported by a community of Design Engineers and Application Developers. The…
Interesting news from Adafruit Today is “open source Nest” day it seems! We are considering doing an open source Nest based on the Raspberry Pi if there’s enough interest – designed by Adafruit & Mike Doell. Here are the renderings Mike is working on. via Should Adafruit build an open source Raspberry Pi based “Nest”…
The guys from Redmond joined the Open Compute Project previously started from Facebook and now including several industry players in Hardware! Microsoft has joined the Open Compute Project, a consortium that Facebook created to share the designs of servers and other equipment that power the Internet’s largest data centers. Like other Internet giants, Microsoft designs…
We usually don’t cover purely software stories but this project is really cool: an open source embroidery software for everyone. The project is still not live but you can send feedback or just get in touch with the developer if interested! Create your own custom embroidered apparel with this easy to use, cross-platform embroidery software….
Our friends at OpenPicus, the Open Source system on module targeted to professional users, just released an Open Source MQTT library: MQTT allows you to create real time Cloud-to-real-world applications in a breeze. There are tons of ready to use Servers and most of the IoT Cloud services are based on MQTT. Today we just…
We came across a very nice teaching project for a self balancing small robot so we decided to feature it as it could be a nice project (and it’s all open source) to experiment with self balancing (anc controls). After I built the tiny balancing robot using an IR sensor for stabilization, there was a comment…
Synapse launches Kickstarter campaign for a Programmable Lucid Dreaming Headband. Despite it’s not clear whether this will be open source or not (at least the team mentioned being open source in the email they sent us) this project it’s kinda cool: After over two years of development, a team of lucid dreamers have working prototypes…
Exciting times: see how the guys at spark created and released an open source implementation for a smart thermostat in one day: We’re not saying that you can build a $3.2 billion company in a day. But we are saying that you can build a $3.2 billion company, and it’s easier now than it’s ever…
ACME Systems announced a Micro new board: Arietta (now selling 9.99 €). Here are the specs: CPU: Atmel’s AT91SAM9G25 (ARM9 clocked @ 400Mhz) RAM: 128 MByte DDR2 MicroSD Socket for up to 32GB bootable Linux microSD (not included) USB 2.0 ports: 1 hi-speed host/device, 1 hi-speed host, 1 full-speed UART: 1 (RXD,TXD,RTS,CTS) I2C bus: 1 SPI bus: 1 with 2…
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