3D printing is being part of our lives and we’re probably getting used to the idea of doing it to innovate and improve our work, and why not, our daily existence. It is always worth to look at the reality and not at the illusion, but the data and the market are quite clear. They…
For the third year we are inviting the open source community gathered around Arduino and Genuino globally to celebrate with us Arduino Day 2016 on Saturday April 2nd! Arduino Day is a worldwide celebration of Arduino’s birthday. It’s a 24 hours-long event –organized directly by the community, or by the Arduino team– where people interested…
A smart application for our beloved Arduino and the Bonsai care. I’m one of those capable of let even a Cactus die (no green thumb unfortunately) but this application could worth a try, even with a precious Bonsai. Bonsai trees are not like other plants. There’s no single watering schedule that can be applied to…
What if we have already developed an Arduino application and we want internet connectivity for it? Yun shield is the answer. Yun shield provides Internet connectivity for all Arduino boards. It features the same connectivity functions implemented on Arduino Yun. Yun shield runs the OpenWrt GNU / Linux operating system, specially designed to manage internet…
It is undeniable that the 4th industrial revolution is sweeping us, bringing behind innovations and promises, but also many fears and uncertainties. But what triggered it and what is the concept that rotates at its base, and the change that it intends to provide? The 4th industrial revolution aims to overturn the productive paradigms known…
In what may be one of the most detailed and largest prop/costume projects we have seen to date, a 20-year-old Marvel Comics enthusiast named Ross Wilkes has created a 3D printed life-sized Iron Man suit. The project — which Wilkes started way back in 2013 as part of his odd, yet very creative, New Year’s…
zeeSoc campaign on Indiegogo is started few days ago and is near to 50% funding. The solution proposed helps anyone who wants to build its own SoC board, from only $35. Here is the description on Indiegogo: The zeeSoC is a cross between a micro-controller, FPGA and precision analog chips. It contains a 80MHz ARM…
Already 200% funded on Indiegogo, a smart solution to control light switches without having to rebuild your home. This is a real DIY Home Automation solution, cheap and effective: Switchmate is a sleek solution that snaps over your standard light switch to automate it in seconds. Just snap Switchmate over your existing light switch, pair…
World’s first amazing Open Source refrigerator, american style, acting as central hub for your kitchen automation, shown at CES2015 by ChillHub: What exactly constitutes a smart refrigerator? For starters, ChillHub includes two integrated USB hubs (displaying a total of of 8 USB ports), and has built-in WiFi connectivity, which lets the device talk to control…
Industry knows open source software has an immense value, but how valuable is an open hardware design? To answer that question, Dr. Joshua Pearce, an associate professor at Michigan Tech University analyzed three methods to quantify the value of open hardware design in the latest issue of the journal Modern Economy. Download the white paper….
Facebook recently released as an open source project its design for a networking device that it says will coordinates the actions of hundreds of thousands of servers in Facebook’s data centers. The target are the bigs like Cisco and Juniper but, respect to those ones, FB has some secret weapons and a huge knowledge of…
Critics of the open source economy point out that “Open source is a system of development that doesn’t have the requisite positive feedback loops needed to build a viable economic system.” Open Source Ecology released their “4 years review” demonstrating the contrary. OSE mission is to build the 50 machines fundamental to live our modern…
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