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…
Forbes and CenturyLink business, important magazines dedicated to business and targeting high level executives, make a recall at what is open source and why it is so rumored, especially from the last year on. Started as “geek’s stuff” and “not really professional”, things have changed so much, and also “not tech” world is recognizing it:…
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…
Google Science Fair is a global online competition open to individuals or team from 13 to 18 years old. Submit before May, 19th to change our World! Here a video about what Science Fair is. Check 3Drag printer at 0’10”!! via Home page – Google Science Fair.
Google ATAP announced the second Project Ara Module Developers Conference! An extended explicatory update released from Paul Eremenko here: https://plus.google.com/+GoogleATAP/posts/YmZCrf3NLQb The second Project Ara Module Developers Conference is coming soon and this time we’re going big! We’ll be hosting two full-day events in locations around the globe where we will share the latest on the Ara platform…
Google Launched Project Cardboard an incredible open design (apparently in Public Domain, or I may have failed to spot the license): Virtual reality has made exciting progress over the past several years. However, developing for VR still requires expensive, specialized hardware. Thinking about how to make VR accessible to more people, a group of VR…
Project Ara – the semi-open hardware, modular smartphone from Google – starts shipping developer boards: Developer Hardware Request Thank you for your interest in Project Ara. You may use this form to apply for development boards, which are designed to facilitate development of Ara modules as defined in the MDK.Your use of these boards are…
3D Systems’ Investor Day, brought us a great news related to the collaboration between the 3Dprinting giant and Google – in relation to Project Ara. The company estimates that the printing speeds used within the manufacturing of modules for Google’s Project Ara will increase by approximately 50X over current 3D printing methods. And this will happen…
Breaking: Project Ara is on its way to release physical Module Developers Kits. I can’t wait to see the first open source phone being sold as a kit or being replicated in self fabrication. Huge. The Module Developers Kit (MDK) defines the Ara platform for module developers and provides reference implementations for various design features….
You know, I love these folks! I love this project! I just can’t wait to see this on the market! In the video the team shows an amazing prototype featuring self locking magnets, and also some preliminary images of the phone configurator UI is shown. Love it! See our coverage of Ara and Phonebloks so…
The recently announced Project Ara from Motorola is a groundbreaking news for all the open source community. If the declared objective of Motorola (read Google) – that of truly democratizing the Smartphone (I would say the digital screens) industry and pushing it towards a landscape where it’s easier for new entrants to create products and…
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