Home Assistant has announced the development of an app for Android Auto. In December, Google released an update for Android Auto that now accepts IoT apps in the Play Store. This means that it will be possible to control Home Assistant directly from Android Auto. The new features are already available in the beta…
The usual rectangular shaped PCBs got bored. The current prototyping services like PCBWAY allow to create PCBs with different shapes. An excellent software that allows you to get the gerber to be printed is Eagle. With the help of other free software such as Google Sketchup it is possible to create circuits of all shapes….
To help advance and improve access to FIDO authenticator implementations, we are excited, following other open-source projects like Solo and Somu, to announce the release of OpenSK, an open-source implementation for security keys written in Rust that supports both FIDO U2F and FIDO2 standards. More info
Let’s switch on the house lights using voice commands given through Google Assistant and the ESP demoboard for WiFi connection. Google is one of the most innovative companies in the IT sector and it’s testified by the exorbitant number of users who use its services: from the most widely used search engine to the…
Google continues to expand its range of AI products and services with a trio of new hardware devices aimed at the development community, launching the new Google Coral brand. It includes a $150 development board featuring a removable system-on-module with one of its custom tensor processing unit (TPU) AI chips, a $74.99 USB accelerator USB…
Google and Arduino have partnered together to developer and launch the Arduino Science Kit Physics Lab, the first official Arduino kit designed for middle school curriculum. The kit provides schoolers with a hands-on experience, enabling them to explore forces, motion, and conductivity with their classmates. Students can make their own hypothesis like a real scientist,…
Following Google’s announcement of an embedded friendly Edge TPU version of its Tensor Processing Unit AI chip and the related Cloud IoT Edge stack for IoT gateways, the company announced a USB stick computer version of Edge TPU that can work with any Linux or Android Things computer: the Edge TPU Accelerator. This small stick includes a…
Google has launched the AIY (AI yourself) Vision Kit that lets you turn Raspberry Pi equipment into an image-recognition device. The vision kit is powered by Google’s TensorFlow machine-learning models and will soon gain an accompanying Android app for controlling the device. Earlier this year they also introduced the AIY voice project, which allowed makers…
2016 has been a great year for Open Source, especially for Google that released lots of interesting things! Looking back at the projects we’ve open sourced in 2016, there’s a lot to be excited about. We have released open source software, hardware, and datasets. Let’s take a look at some of this year’s releases. Here…
In a new interview with Google’s director of engineering, author and futurist Ray Kurzweil, has shared some of his most recent predictions for the future of technology with the New York Times. Here are his predictions: As the variety of materials available to print in 3D become more extensive and less expensive, both free open-source…
An inspiring news for all the makers who want to contribute spreading science and the scientific method. Google and the author of the article reported are working hard on an open source toolkit to help anyone developing scientific tools, by releasing lots of open source stuff! In 2007 I took part in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) developing…
Modular smartphones have generated great enthusiasm in the tech community for their potential to prolong the lifespan of a device and reduce electronic waste. But the devices are difficult to bring to market because their interchangeable parts make them bulky and costly to produce, said analyst Bob O’Donnell of TECHnalysis Research, adding that he was…
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