After almost two years of development, Arduino released its IDE 1.6. A lot of changes have been made thanks to the huge work of developers and, above all, thanks to the support of makers and passionate community that reported all the issues and, often, helped finding solutions. Among all…
The 2015 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, has been the largest and most amazing exhibition in the history of CES so far, according to Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) that is the owner and showrunner of this fair. The venue stretched over more than 2.2 million net square feet of exhibit…
Very interesting project of an HF/Shortwave Software Defined Transceiver radio. And it’s fully open source (software plus hardware!). We love when kickstarter lets surface such a niche, spectacular project! The Portable Software Defined Radio, or PSDR, is an Open Source, Fully stand-alone HF/Shortwave Software Defined Transceiver. It includes a Vector Network Analyzer and Antenna Analyzer as well…
OneRNG it’s an open source entropy generator that you can use for personal cryptography. The project already met its funding challenge but you can still help for few hours! After Edward Snowden’s recent revelations about how compromised our internet security has become some people have worried about whether the hardware we’re using is compromised –…
Do you remember the Open Source Chromecast alternative Matchstick? They recently made a strong announcement, launching the dubbed “open source streaming platform” Flint! Matchstick announced Flint, the first open software and open hardware video-streaming platform created with Mozilla’s Firefox OS inside. Flint aims to deliver highly interactive streaming and screen-to-screen experiences including two way interactivity,…
From the same inventors of Knitic, now a circular version of the open source hardware knitting machine: is textile and clothing an industry that is going to be disrupted by digital? Fab Labs and makerspaces are a lot about hard-surface object production. At the same time, the 1st digital fabrication tool, which is an electronic…
Our friends at OpenPicus just launched Smartables, a new, cloud enabled platform for professional IoT. The company will be platinum sponsor of upcoming Seedhack in London, you’ll be able to experiment with the technology. We reached out to openPicus CEO that insured that HW technology will be open source, as in company tradition. The Smartables platform…
Awesome project LibreCalc wants to create a Free (as in speech) calculator, made with free software, using free software, and released as open hardware: The second prototype took a little longer that we expected to be finished. We still need to do screen painting for the keyboard, and some software adjustment, and maybe paint the…
Here we are, the 2015 is fresh starting and as usual it’s the right time to take stock of the past year. In this post, we’ll go through the main accomplishments done in 2014 about open source and as you will easily see, the past one has been a very productive and inspiring year! Let’s…
OSVR is “built from the ground up to bring the best Virtual Reality gaming experience”. According to the founders OSVR “is the one platform where all aspects of the industry – input devices, games, and output – are unified, collaborating and innovating to take Virtual Reality gaming into the next frontier.” And the team and…
Mathilde at Making Society offers a great recap on open hardware business models here in this post. Is really worth a read as it also builds on top of recently presented works at the Open Hardware Summit in Rome. A major question for open source hardware is about its business models. How can you create…
OpenMotics – an truly open source, Hardware and Software system – is off to a great start in the domotics market: maybe someone finally got it well that Open source can be used to conquer fragmented markets! OpenMotics: your modern, open source home automation at a reasonable price that’s easy to use! Anyone building or…
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