MeowCAD is a free and open source electronics design tool that runs completely in your browser. With it you’ll be able to create schematic and board layouts. Different export features allow you to generate Gerber files to send off to board manufacturers or GCode files for isolation routing. You’ll also easily be able to share…
Welcome to OpenSAM, our 3Dprinted self-built three Axis stabilizer. It is handheld and the entire mechanical construct is built using 3D printed parts. Brushless motors ensure the camera is stable and they can be controlled using a joystick. The design is developed by three engineering students at the Technical University of Denmark. Now gimbals like…
Microsoft will breathe life into Windows Live Writer by open sourcing the eight-year-old blog-publishing tool. The application debuted in 2007 alongside Windows Vista, and was part of Windows Live Essentials, a bundle that included several now-defunct programs, such as Mail, Messenger, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery and SkyDrive. Live Writer was last updated in 2012, shortly…
Open source and open design laser cutter, founded on Kickstarter 5x the minimum amount requested! Full specs here on Kickstarter.
Catching wearable led lights, based on a custom Arduino Uno hardware with an accelerometer to trigger special light effects based on movement. Directly from the product creator, on his Kickstarter campaign: We are giving the community a fair & square open source tool and open source software to explore a new universe of performance microlights….
Gesto is the world’s first open-source boards for wearable gesture control with a unique method that combines muscle signals with motion patterns. It recognizes more gestures than any other platform: wave, pinch, air drawing gestures, turn a surface into a touch interface, and much more. Gesto’s team designed a modular DIY 3D printing band to…
Code Climate team just released an open source tool, command line based, to perform source code quality tests. No longer will developers be limited by the set of programming languages and frameworks that Code Climate supports. Now you can call on new engines for CoffeeScript, CSS stylesheets, Go, JavaScript, PHP, or Ruby, or write an…
The widely deployed open-source Node.js programming framework is being reunited June 16 as the new Node.js Foundation. The Node.js community has been in turmoil this year with the io.js project publicly splitting from the original Node.js project started by Joyent. With the new foundation, the two communities are coming back together with support from multiple…
Facebook has announced that it’s open-sourcing Infer, a code verification tool used to identify buggy mobile code before it ships. The social network giant procured Infer as part of a deal to acquire “certain assets” of London-based Monoidics back in 2013, with the team joining Facebook in the process. The company recently open-sourced HipHop VM…
Linkedin, the most famous professionals social network is also very active on developing open source software. They announced the release of Pinot, an open source data analytic software (the same Linkedin uses on its big data): Last fall we introduced Pinot, LinkedIn’s real-time analytics infrastructure, that we built to allow us to slice and dice…
Arduino Studio is a development environment completely open source and dedicated to the programming language Arduino. It is simple, practical and versatile, enabling to take advantage of the characteristics and potential of Adobe Brackets Editor (brackets.io). Arduino Studio is an IDE for all environments and it is available for all the main operative systems (Windows,…
“Learn to code” is the new mantra for the 21st century. What’s often lost in that statement is exactly what makes programming so useful if you’re not planning to switch careers and become a software engineer. That was the beginning of a post dealing with Python programming for not experts. Why should you learn a…
Open-Electronics.org is the brainchild of a world leader in hobby electronics Futura Group srl. Open-Electronics.org is devoted to support development, hacking and playing with electronics: we share exciting open projects and create amazing products!
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