Chad Herbert’s son Daniel was diagnosed with Benign Rolandic Epilepsy in 2014. It’s a type of epilepsy the Epilepsy Foundation says accounts for about 15 percent of all Epilepsies in children and the good news is that most children grow out of it. The bad news is that Daniel’s most affected by his condition at night or early morning…
Our Brazilian friend Goncalves, “obsessed by having a fashion smartwatch”, worked on a very cool project: Arduino based smartwatch, with pedometer, altimeter, accelerometer and other interesting features! Hi folks! Last few days I’ve been obsessed with the idea to make my own watch from arduino parts, but something cool I could use and say I…
Catching wearable led lights, based on a custom Arduino Uno hardware with an accelerometer to trigger special light effects based on movement. Directly from the product creator, on his Kickstarter campaign: We are giving the community a fair & square open source tool and open source software to explore a new universe of performance microlights….
Gesto is the world’s first open-source boards for wearable gesture control with a unique method that combines muscle signals with motion patterns. It recognizes more gestures than any other platform: wave, pinch, air drawing gestures, turn a surface into a touch interface, and much more. Gesto’s team designed a modular DIY 3D printing band to…
Bluz is a Bluetooth LE development kit (DK) unlike any other. Bluz comes cloud connected out of the box to the Spark cloud, meaning you can access the device from anywhere in the world, and not just when you’re smartphone is nearby. BLE is a fantastic compliment to other wireless technologies such as WiFi and…
Look at this beautiful teardown project on adafruit of the amazing Ringly BT wearable device. Ringly is a bluetooth notification device build into a metal and stone cocktail ring. The light on the side flashes different colors when you get texts, emails, etc. and it buzzes to get your attention. via Inside Ringly | Ringly Teardown…
Our friends at OpenPicus just launched Smartables, a new, cloud enabled platform for professional IoT. The company will be platinum sponsor of upcoming Seedhack in London, you’ll be able to experiment with the technology. We reached out to openPicus CEO that insured that HW technology will be open source, as in company tradition. The Smartables platform…
A new Open Source took to find you way into design new wearable gadgets and experiences is looking for funding on kickstarter. Despite the challenging goal, it looks like the project may be on track to achieve its objectives! What is MeU? What if you could communicate instantly with your immediate surroundings? Informing those around you to…
We just received this in our Submit channel: We are a group of enthusiastic developers from Finland, consisting of embedded electronics engineers, IT specialists and simply interested students. Our idea is to make a low cost and open source smart-watches for those who are looking for technology or just a cool looking accessory on their…
Atomwear, is a micro, modularized, open source, wearable BLE device for DIYers. is looking for feedbacks on kickstarter: still not sure of the date. Overall the project looks really interesting as it’s modular and innovative: check it out! Atomwear by Shuwen Liu — Kickstarter.
Samsung unveiled this amazing initiative at an event in San Francisco, announcing that SAMI will be powered by open software and open hardware and will let users control their own data. We will see how it develops, but still looks unclear what the path of opening will be: still looks you need to join the consortium…
When I think about the world that we are now living, I have to (I literally must) think about open source technologies, open source frameworks and products such good that became excellent platforms to build your own distrupting software, or board. We are living the same situation with wearable devices, in such a way that…
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