A new Open Source took to find you way into design new wearable gadgets and experiences is looking for funding on kickstarter. Despite the challenging goal, it looks like the project may be on track to achieve its objectives! What is MeU? What if you could communicate instantly with your immediate surroundings? Informing those around you to…
Just few days ago, Open Source Hardware Association nominated three new Board Members: Thank you to our members who voted for OSHWA’s new board members! Your vote is a major contribution as we need to reach quorum (at least 10% of our members) to make anything official in OSHWA. This year, we filled 3 board member…
OMG. This project needs to be backed even only for the AMAZING song this father and son put together. Can’t miss. Bluetooth hackable Christmas lights. Hassle-free setup and easy-to-use smart phone app. Any light, any color, any time. Creating amazing, dynamic holiday displays is about to get a lot easier. Dancing LEDs are strings of…
The team at OpenSource.com did a great job lately on getting more in deep with Open Source hardware: We’ve been banging around for a few months in our workshop, toiling away at our latest creation: What is open hardware?, a new resource page. And it’s finally finished! And they really did a great job with a…
We recently presented our Open Source Solar Lawn Mower, project to Boca Bearings Innovation Competition and it has been selected and you can now vote for it! This lawn mower uses only energy from the sun and does not require any external power source, that can operate in areas not covered by the electricity service. Is very simple…
The Open Prosthetics project is making giant leaps: the current list of projects under development is pretty terrific: Amputee Preference Census Open Arms Open Myoelectric Platforms Open Standards RFID Object Identification for Control Information The OPP “T-Hook,” an Updated Trautman-Style Hook Vector Prehensor Updating the APRL Hook New Split Hook Improved Body Powered Harness LEGO…
Beautiful project spotted on instructable that shows how clever can open designers be: This chair is made from a 1/2 sheet of plywood, uses no glue or fasteners, and is held together by a single ratchet strap. I made this chair because I was interested in the forces at play to make a chair stand…
Our friends at opensource.com, just released an ebook collecting all the contributions to the Open Hardware Week that they held earlier few weeks ago: During Open Hardware Week at Opensource.com, we asked more than a dozen open-minded technologists to explain how applying open source principles to physical devices is shaping the way we work and…
Analog electronics is going to be ever rare in the future so it’s really the case to support these bunch of dreamers still wrangling with analog creations: Open Analog is about open source analog hardware. We take popular Integrated Circuits and turn them into transistor level PCB kits. This campaign is mainly to fund the…
Apparently the folks at OSVehicle, are launching a survey to ask makers input on developing a 1:5 scale model of the OSVechicle Tabby. You can answer the survey here: http://www.osvehicle.com/tabby-scale-model-survey/ For those who don’t know, TABBY – the first model coming from Open Source Vehicle – came out of the blue at Rome Maker Faire last…
This project surely deserves more traction as it combines open source electronics and crypto-currencies related security. I would definitely seen these problems solved.. in Open source! The new security PRISMcide solution consists of “open source” smart cards and of a small “open hardware” portable player that can be used with Android and iOS smartphones and tablets via…
After its ultra successful kickstarter campaign, Makesmith CNC (will be open source software powered and open hardware) are on track to deliver. Just wanted to ensure you know this amazing project 🙂 With the successful close of our Kickstarter campaign on June 9th, we are hard at work ensuring we can deliver the 350 machines…
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