The team at OpenSource.com did a great job lately on getting more in deep with Open Source hardware: We’ve been banging around for a few months in our workshop, toiling away at our latest creation: What is open hardware?, a new resource page. And it’s finally finished! And they really did a great job with a…
Pretty cool conference going on later on this year in Kansas City on Open Hardware. Events like this – focused on open hardware – are popping here and here in the world! The KC Open Hardware Conference is the second annual conference organized by the Kansas City Open Hardware Society [group]. The conference conference conference…
Few days ago, Open Hardware Summit 2014 released an almost complete list of Speakers. The full list is available here: http://2014.oshwa.org/speakers/ The review panel has passed along the accepted speakers and I am thrilled at their selection. We have a great range of interest which will be represented at this years open hardware summit! Jump over…
This project is really cool: an automation platform for DIY bio (and more). I’m seriously thinking to reach out for an interview! Because of the open, modular design, OpenTrons can be fit with any attachment you can make. This gives it all kinds of abilities. via OpenTrons | Automation for Everyone.
Samsung unveiled this amazing initiative at an event in San Francisco, announcing that SAMI will be powered by open software and open hardware and will let users control their own data. We will see how it develops, but still looks unclear what the path of opening will be: still looks you need to join the consortium…
I am not an enthusiast of Raspberry Pi, for a bunch of reasons: indeed I believe that we can find on the actual market so many boards that would make a Raspberry Pi blush in a confrontation uniquely based upon hardware features. The enabling element of the Raspberry is its cost: it has probably the…
A very interesting french project for a touchless gesture control device: definitely worth supporting! 3D-Pad is a touchless gesture control interface providing 3D coordinates and gesture recognition, with a 10cm depth perception. It consists of a sandwich made up of: a PCB called an electrode plane (1) an Arduino Shield (2) an Arduino Uno (3) – based on ATMEL ATmega328…
It’s already several years that we talk about open source software, as a winning approach. By now, even the most conservative CTO, or the slowest public organizations agreed to give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s: open source software is generally more mature and malleable, it can be tweaked and adapted more easily, it keeps…
Do you follow the work at 3DHubs? You should. This amazing dutch born startup is building a worldwide, peer to peer network of affiliated 3Dprinter owners that can help you print wherever your are. Since few weeks, our beloved 3Drag printer is shipping equipped with a flyer that will remind owners to register on 3D…
Besides being a friend of Open Electronics, Sergio Subrizi is one of the few in the world who have had the experience of building the MechMate: a DIY, Open Source CNC Router. Judging from the beautiful machine that Sergio was able to build, his experience will be useful to all those who venture into this…
When I think about the world that we are now living, I have to (I literally must) think about open source technologies, open source frameworks and products such good that became excellent platforms to build your own distrupting software, or board. We are living the same situation with wearable devices, in such a way that…
Here at Open Electronics we are big fans of sailing. A good old friend of mine recently participated to 2013 edition of Mini Transat, a solo sailing race that starts in late october in Northern France and ends up in South America, was in Guadalupe this year, actually Pointe-à-Pitre. My friend’s race was definitely not…
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