Yes i’m coming out: I’m a geek and a nerd, that’s quite obvious. And i grew up, suspiciously, doubting, thanks to the X-Files teaching. So I’ve been really happy to hear about the X-Files reboot, and here i’m double happy to write about it and 3d printing. Laurent Bernadac played the main theme with a…
The Wall Street Journal reported that [Eric Schmidt] of Google and now Alphabet Inc, promoted the idea of an inexpensive version of the Raspberry Pi to the Raspberry Pi foundation’s [Eben Upton]. Apparently [Upton] accepted this recommendation despite existing plans to make a more expensive, more powerful version of the Pi. The outcome is the…
Recently we have presented the important project launched by our friends Stefano Terna and Daniele Grieco: IoTTLY, an open source distro dedicated to IoT for Makers. They have launched a Kickstarter campaign too but it didn’t go according our expectations. Anyway, Stefano and Daniele don’t give in and are going on with the project. In…
This project is based on A Raspberry Pi based (www.PiTouch.co) tablet plus a customizable, Open-source design for your needs and projects. It’s also a lot interesting for wannabe creators on kickstarter: very cool to see the original developers of the PiTouch creating new ideas to make use of their original product, and kickstarting super niche (60…
Solderdoodle Pro 2.0 is a portable, cordless, improved ergonomic design based in the original Solderdoodle USB rechargeable soldering iron. Again, the project is looking for funding on Kickstarter and is still long way from the objective Solderdoodle Pro does what other portable soldering irons have failed to do, and that’s the ability to last at full…
Today we will introduce you to a board that replicates the approach of the Raspberry Pi but with increased functionalities, capable of running GNU / Linux and Android. We are talking about Banana Pi microcomputer, based on the SoC Allwinner A20 produced by Lemaker, a Chinese company based in Shenzhen. The first point of…
BrainCard is an interesting project aims at bridging neural network community with DIY and Makers. Unfortunately, the project doesn’t seem to take much traction so far. Maybe you can help! The BrainCard™ is an open source hardware platform featuring the worlds only fully functional and field-tested Neuromorphic Chip containing 1024 artificial neurons. It is able to learn…
Here we are, a great year full of innovations and open source project is passing by and we would like to celebrate with you this magic moment! As usual in this period, it’s time to take stocks of the work done so far, so here are the most visited posts on Open Electronics. Top 5…
Let’s turn Raspberry Pi into an analogic/digital measurment tool with BitScope Micro, the most recent product of the BitScope tools generation. As hinted by the name, its calling is the measurement of digital signals. The software is available for the GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac/OS X platforms. BitScope Micro is a further confirmation of the ongoing…
We’ll show you today how to use the WiFi shield and its libraries to turn Arduino into a Web Server; in addition, we are going to use the I/O Expander shield to provide more input and outputs to the platform. We will describe how to handle the specific library to use the WiFi shield as a WEB client for a public website that will collect data coming…
Everyone likes comforts, you know, and that is why we all prepare ourselves, as soon as we can, to automatize some functions that otherwise we should manually carry out, thus inevitably taking up time and energies: from the irrigation system, to the tent that comes back automatically if too much wind rises; to the remote…
As you may remember we covered open source Tor based anonymizing router earlier on here. Apparently last week, while it was nearing $600,000 in funding Anonabox has been hit by a backlash according to claims that the team didn’t built a “custom” board and case for their miniature router but only bought an off-the-shelf case and did some tweaks….
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