We love the open source philosphy when we think about OS, hardware, software and programming languages as well. But what about the tool we use to develop our PCB blueprint? FritZing is the solution! Fritzing is an open source application that allows users to create schematics by selecting parts from a large part library, connecting…
It is an interesting question, isn’t it? People not “inside” the maker world or not expert in programming think that Arduino and RaspberryPi are two flavours of the same object. Like if you ask “Mac or PC” rather than “Ubuntu or Debian” if you’re nerdish. Indeed, Arduino is a microcontroller, while RaspberryPi is a microcomputer…
We’ve been waiting for this moment for months and today we confirm that Arduino Zero is available for purchase from the Arduino Store in US on Monday June 15th at $49.90. At the same time it has been released the Arduino IDE 1.6.5 with a bunch of new features and the support for the Arduino…
As already announced during the most recent Maker Faire Bay Area, held in San Francisco last May, Massimo Banzi anticipated a bunch of news about Arduino/Genuino strategy. By the way, did you miss our exclusive interview with Massimo? Go here to read it before going on, spoiler advice! So, one of the most exciting news…
Tsunami is a new powerful and flexible signal generator built on the Arduino platform and the best way to get started experimenting with analog signals. Nick Johnson, its creator, took the versatile processor behind the Arduino Leonardo, and combined it with a Direct Digital Synthesis chip, which makes generating analog signals incredibly straightforward. He also…
As promised on our previous post about the SciFi your Pi competition, here is one of the project selected for the challenge. It is directly taken from Star Trek, do you remember the Tricorder, the all-in-one sensor used to analyze a new environment and people health status? Here it is, fully open source! The latest…
An interesting experiment from Fabio Nelli, dedicated to all the software engineers who need to build or study a parallel computing system. The traditional ones are really expensive but, as you can read below, by using MPI library for python and at least a couple of Raspberry pies, you have a full performing system, almost…
The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) is kicking off the process to create an Open Source Hardware Certification. In addition to all of the amazing things that will happen at this year’s Open Hardware Summit, our goal is to be able to roll out the first version of the Open Source Hardware certification this fall….
As promised on our previous post about the SciFi your Pi competition, here is one of the project selected for the challenge. It is an innovative computer interface, similar to that seen in Tron, according to the project owner: When thinking about science-fiction, things that come to mind are touch/motion controls, things that slide in…
The call for submissions to the Open Hardware Summit is now open! We’re looking for your best ideas and your brightest proposals. This year’s Open Hardware Summit will be back in the States in Philadelphia, PA on September 19, 2015. Now in its sixth year, OHS brings together an inquisitive and active community of open…
With the motto “Making Science out of Science Fiction”, Element14 community launched last month a competition among makers devoted to low cost computing and open source hardware to present their projects, following the rule: The element14 members are being challenged to create applications that inspired them from science fiction: the inspiration could arise from a…
We are exploiting any possible application for our microcontrollers and microcomputers, like Arduino, BeagleBone, BananaPi, RaspberryPi, but this one is quite new. It seems confirmed that some Russian and Brazilian game stores are selling illegally modified Sony PS4 to override the game’s copy protection. The interesting fact, for us, is that the core of the…
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