Last November, 3rd Arduino released the newest IDE 1.6.6. There are still some bugs (the NAMESPACE, for instance) but Arduino declared to fix most of them in their hourly releases. Today we are very proud to release Arduino IDE 1.6.6 and updated cores for all supported platforms (AVR 1.6.9, SAM 1.6.5, SAMD 1.6.2). This update…
With a new version of its product in the offing and $4 million in Series A funding in its pocket, GitLab — creator of an open source alternative to code-hosting nexus GitHub — is setting out to expand its reach with enterprise customers. While it seems nearly impossible for a third party to displace GitHub as a public…
If you love making your own electronic boards you know how annoying is to purchase online all the components needed. Especially when you read about a project on internet and you have to figure the bill of materials out of the description. Now, with 1-click BOM you can download or share a .tsv BOM list…
Facebook has announced that it’s open-sourcing Infer, a code verification tool used to identify buggy mobile code before it ships. The social network giant procured Infer as part of a deal to acquire “certain assets” of London-based Monoidics back in 2013, with the team joining Facebook in the process. The company recently open-sourced HipHop VM…
A goldmine of open source code is available to programmers, but choosing the right library and understanding how to use it can be tricky. Sourcegraph has created a search engine and code browser to help developers find better code and build software faster. Sourcegraph is a code search engine and browsing tool that semantically indexes…
Happy Birthday Git! Linus Torvalds 10 years ago today released Git after it was clear BitKeeper was no longer an option for the Linux community. He assessed other existing revision control systems and decided none would do. Ultimately, he decided he would just write a new one, so he went away for a weekend and…
On March 13th, Google Code announced publicly the dismissal of their service, sending also a communication to all people who is keeping projects on that system explaining what is happening and which steps to follow to migrate existing code towards other services, like sourceforge, github and bitbucket. Google itself recognize those competitors as leaders de…
Satya Nadella recently celebrated his first “birthday” as Microsoft CEO and during this stretch of time we have seen many changes in MS strategy. One of the most surprising was the open source movement that involved some products, like .NET features. On .NET Blog, we have read interesting news like: “We’re excited to announce that…
A new nice system for collaborative development in Open Design is debuting on the market. As of now, I’m not sure which kind of files you could manage with this platform, but for sure you may find it useful to co-develop open design companion for your open hardware projects (such as mockups, image packs). Visual version…
We’re everyday more astonished about the creativity that people can put into hacking projects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6B3vYuzU4k RumbleRail is a standalone and modular Floppy Disk Jukebox – Load midi files onto the SD card and take it with you for tunes on the go! A beautiful machined black aluminium rail carries all components: Eight floppy drives, matching…
Amazing news: Github is digging more and more into 3D designs: Back in April, we introduced the 3D file viewer. Today we’re improving this by displaying diffs of STL files on GitHub. There are two modes to figure out what you’re looking at. By default, we select “Highlight”, a mode that highlights the removed parts…
Nice initiative! (Despite Leap Motion is not open source) The Leap is an incredible new motion-tracking device from Leap Motion. It tracks movements up to 10 µm (!) in 8 cubic feet of 3D space. OpenLeap is a community of open-source enthusiasts making software for this wonderful device. Started by Owen Versteeg as an open-source…
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