Tracksoar is the smallest lightest open source APRS tracker available. It makes tracking weather balloons, model rockets, RC aircraft, and anything else that flies as easy as possible. It is able to report location, altitude, temperature pressure and humidity to Internet once a minute for twelve hours with 2xAA batteries. Because Tracksoar is open source…
A new embedded computing board, made in China (Shenzen district) that is challenging the world famous Raspberry Pi. Its strength is, apart from the highest hardware specs, that the board can host not only linux (Raspbian compatible) but Android as well! Everything at $39! It’s an open-source single-board computer. It can run Android 4.4 ,…
Intel, United Artists Media Group, and Turner Broadcasting System are bringing a national makers’ challenge to television in 2016. All the participants will challenge each other by making and inventing new devices by using the just announced Genuino101 board, a really complete IoT and wearable solution based on Intel Curie SoC. The board features: The Intel®…
Felfil Evo, the open source filament extruder for 3D printers made for makers. Ready for experimentation, it will help you save money! An easy to use filament extruder, which will allow anyone to produce their 3D printer filament on their own, starting from industrial pellet, wrong 3d prints or recycled wastes. You will be able…
The third edition of Maker Faire The European Edition starts today with the special event at Mercati Traianei in Rome, featuring Riccardo Luna and Massimo Banzi in the special 4 days event, until October 18th, that will put the focus on Makers movement, innovation, creativity, smart and electric mobility. Don’t miss out this year’s amazing…
We crowdsourced a complete city-wide Internet of Things data network with the people of Amsterdam in 6 weeks using a new technology named LoraWAN™. Now we are launching our global campaign to repeat this in every city in the world. The technology allows for things to talk to the internet without 3G or WiFi. So…
Wireless, Credit-Card sized, Android + Linux + Arduino™, Embedded Sensors, starting from $49. What else? UDOO launched a successful fundraising campaign on Kickstarter and so the company managed to launch the commercial version. Here on the official Kickstarter page you can purchase it. Most interesting, a series of customisations proposed by the team to…
Recently we have presented the important project launched by our friends Stefano Terna and Daniele Grieco: IoTTLY, an open source distro dedicated to IoT for Makers. They have launched a Kickstarter campaign too but it didn’t go according our expectations. Anyway, Stefano and Daniele don’t give in and are going on with the project. In…
OpenDaylight, an open source platform for software-defined networking (SDN), is being seen as a potential networking software platform for the internet of things (IoT). A Linux Foundation initiative, the OpenDaylight Project has telecoms industry support as an open source platform for SDN and but has relevance to IoT as it can be used for creation…
The definition of Open Source Hardware has been around for a while, but without a certification process, the Open Hardware movement has lacked the social proof required of such a movement; there is no official process to go through that will certify hardware as open hardware, and there technically isn’t a logo you can…
A modular laptop built with a Raspberry Pi. An ergonomic, programmable, mechanical keyboard made from slabs of maple, so it looks like a solid-state electric guitar. A device that plugs into a wall socket that allows you to control devices from your smart phone. What do these and hundreds of other devices – from wearable…
It’s so simple, really. What we all want is to build something that solves a problem in the best way we can. And we want it fast. And cheap. But it’s not so simple, after all. There are a myriad of combinations and permutations that will get you (eventually) from here to there. How can…
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