The goal is to build a small car with very low petrol consumption. With 1 litre of petrol (or its equivalent in diesel or ethanol) cover the distance of 100 kms with a prototype built especialy for this endurance event. The vehicle must have a minimum weight of 225 kg. Each team is given full scope to express their…
See this new board that debuted on kickstarter: amazingly small, this product comes to join the ever growing Arduino family. The Microduino series is a 100% Arduino compatible open source hardware, compatible with Arduino IDE development environment and existing Arduino sketches. Its size is about a quarter (25.40mm X 27.94mm / 1.0inch X 1.1inch), much…
The Open Hand Project is an open source project with the goal of making robotic prosthetic hands more accessible to amputees. The Dextrus hand is the realization of this goal, it’s a robotic hand that can be put together for well under £650 ($1000) and offers much of the functionality of a human hand The…
From the OSHWA Blog: New board members are: Gabriella Levin, David Mellis, Star Simpson, Jeffery Warren, and Emile Petrone. Click here to see the data. Thank you to all who participated in nominations Welcome New OSHWA Board Members! For those non familiar with the new nominees: Gabriella Levin now working with Protei David Mellis MIT fellow…
It’s always tricky when you create something: a complex project, a commercial product or just an hack and then you must decide what license you should use for that, for releasing it to the public. The discussion regarding licensing open electronics or hardware in general has been carried on for years now, and many points…
MinnowBoard is a barebones x86 mini PC featuring: a 1GHz Atom E640 processor (with integrated graphics) 1GB DDR2 RAM micro SD card slot SDVO to DVI port audio input and output two USB 2.0 ports gigabit Ethernet PCI Express SATA2 4MB of flash firmware The board runs Angstrom Linux and is Yocto Project compatible. Last but not…
This scalability mantra we have been used for years now is not getting us anywhere. I’m sick of this build – grow – exit thing. Building the next web startups is not going to make any big difference in the world: we have social networks, blog platforms, we have sites for sharing pictures, we have…
We are an artist duo Varvara Guljajeva & Mar Canet working together in the field of art and technology since 2009. We are developing Knitic project, which began as a residency project at Marginalia+Lab in Belo Horizonte, as an open hardware, which controls a knitting machine via Arduino. We don’t use a floppy emulation or…
A relevant panel on digital, open manufacturing has been finally published on Ouishare TV. This panel was part of the Makers track at the Ouishare Fest that has been held in Paris in Early May. The panel was moderated by our Editor Simone Cicero and saw the contributions of Dale Dougherty, Peter Troxler and Tomas Diez…
All of us are passionate defenders of open electronics and supporters of the movement for open source hardware, and so today we decided to submit a list, a tribute, to those which, in our point of view, are the most important and most promising initiatives out there. Hopefully this list will bring some new inspiration…
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