Open Flight Solution opened a Kickstarter campaign about its new ADS-B product and reached nearly the 200% funding in few days. If you’re a pilot, chances are pretty good that you’ve heard about ADS-B. You probably know that an ADS-B receiver can make flying safer and more efficient by providing real-time weather, traffic, TFRs, and…
“PINE64 is an open source platform from both hardware to software. Our goal is to bring the most affordable 64-Bit computing solution to the world. Use the PINE64 to build your next computer, tablet, gaming device, media player, and just almost anything you can think of,” reads the project’s website. Among the technical specifications of…
The first device that combines a development and prototyping board with a smart tv box. Its features: dual boot: Android & Ubuntu, with the possibility to install a light OS as well. Octa Core CPU: The RK3368 is an Octa Core 64bit, ARM Cortex-A53 processor with PowerVR G6110 graphics chip, 28nm processing design, Support OPENGL ES…
The 2015 seems not a lucky year for embedded computing or microcontroller based boards. After Arduino CC vs. ORG dispute, a similar case is affecting BananaPi producers (Foxconn) and Lemaker company, as reported on the official BananaPi website: According to Lemaker team’s Malicious acts of trademark registration, We have formally challenged by the relevant legal…
Facebook contribution to open source can be largely categorized into Mobile, Web, Back-end and Infrastructure. Top open source projects made in these categories are: Mobile: Buck Buck is a high performance build system for Android that encourages creation of small, reusable modules consisting of code and resources. Because Android applications are predominantly written in Java,…
At its Build developer conference earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it would soon release tools that would make it easier for iOS and Android developers to take their existing code and port their apps to Windows. The Android version of this, officially named Windows Bridge for Android, is now in private beta. The iOS version, however…
Razer’s open source virtual reality project will support Android, which opens up the future of this mind-altering world to multiple devices. Along with this change to version 1.2 of Razer’s “Hacker Development Kit,” the team will also add in positional tracking. This is a key piece, as it allows you to experience the environment in…
Did you follow the recent Google I/O conference? No? Don’t worry, here are the news announced during the keynote! Android M: of course, the new incoming release of Android OS. Most exciting features will be on the “App permission” panel, to help choosing the data permission each app is allowed to, and a smart battery…
Important announcement we hope to see confirmed during Google’s next I/O event in San Francisco scheduled on May, 28-29th. Brillo will be the OS dedicated to IoT devices, with low memory footprint and remotely managed. Here is a “spoiler”: Google is expected to launch a new Android-based operating system that would be lightweight enough to…
The dream for any IoT maker wanting to connect 24/7 his board to internet, by using a mobile data connection. Those guys had their project 600% funded on Kickstarter. If you’re smart, you still have 10 days to get a discounted early bird! What is the project: The Konekt Dash is a cellular development kit…
Most of Facebook’s announcements at last F8 developer conference were iOS-centric, but the company also released three new open source tools for Android developers. The Tools are: Year Class, that is meant to help developers quickly figure out what kind of device a user is running. Thanks to this, a developer can quickly tune an…
Everyone that has ever used a liquid gas cylinder for camping, heating, cooking knows how much anxiety could grow up when not knowing how much LPG is left on… what if the cylinder empties in the middle of a BBQ or, worse, in a snowy winter day? Gas-Scale is a nice solution, you can monitor…
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