Satya Nadella recently celebrated his first “birthday” as Microsoft CEO and during this stretch of time we have seen many changes in MS strategy. One of the most surprising was the open source movement that involved some products, like .NET features. On .NET Blog, we have read interesting news like: “We’re excited to announce that…
Critics of the open source economy point out that “Open source is a system of development that doesn’t have the requisite positive feedback loops needed to build a viable economic system.” Open Source Ecology released their “4 years review” demonstrating the contrary. OSE mission is to build the 50 machines fundamental to live our modern…
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…
Waterjet cutters are generally huge machines, with equally large price tags. But what if there was a hobbyist level waterjet cutter that was actually affordable? Well, for their Senior Design Project at the University of Pennsylvania, Adam Libert and his team made one that could retail for less than $5000: “I was the lead mechanical…
MeshSr is specialized in the development and production of platforms for networking communication, especially in the field of Software-Defined-Networking (SDN). They’ve released on Kickstarter an open source platform: “The ONetSwitch project sets up an open Software Defined Networking platform for you, building your own network appliance that transform, inspect, filter or otherwise manipulate Lab/Home traffic…
Opensource.com published their annual prize for top contrinutors, among whom you can find prolific contributors to the open source movement. “Every year, Opensource.com awards people from our community who have excelled in contributing and sharing stories about open source. These stories are about open source as we use it in our everyday lives as well…
Everybody loves a visit to the zoo. And for a kid it can be an especially magical experience. But if you’re hospitalised, a trip out is easier said than done. For some children, it’s simply impossible. The ambitious Robots for Good project, an initiative by London based Wevolver, is going to change this. Giving hospitalized…
OneRNG is a random number generator that you can use for cryptography – it’s completely open source, secure but hackable: The board is designed to be physically inspected – there’s no traditional cover, instead we have a metal RF shield with a removable lid. The metal can is there to stop in internal noise from escaping,…
Crowdsupply renovates the fame of being an interesting place for really cool project. USB Armory is a full fledge computer on an – open source hardware – USB Stick: The USB Armory is full-blown computer (800MHz ARM® processor, 512MB RAM) in a tiny form factor (65mm x 19mm x 6mm USB stick) designed from the…
Intresting to see how the first moment in which the white house is related to the concept of open source hardware is for the creation of a funny christmas decoration – two dog “animatrons”. Read the full story on White house blog and access files on GitHub. As often, everything is powered by Arduino boards….
Great introduction video to the Micro Word Clock by Daniel Roja: A tiny replica of the famous Word Clock, using only an ATmega microcontroller, a DS1307 Real Time Clock and a few passive components to display the time on an 8×8 LED matrix. The letters have been printed onto a transparent sheet and glued over the…
Very nice news from the Diatom Studios: a lot of new details is available Piccolo, a pocket sized open source CNC-bot that you can create by using laser-cutting and off-the-shelf hardware and Arduino. The small robot from Diatom Studios called the Piccolo was the inspiration for my own TinyCNC. The Piccolo was first announced in February of…
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