“Open Tech Forever (OTF) is dedicated to developing new and improved, open source versions of modern and cutting-edge technologies. In the open source spirit, we create free, online, high quality educational resources demonstrating how to understand, redesign, and replicate our products. We cover not only the skills, designs and the train of thought behind the…
Cheaper electronics and network connectivity are driving the Internet of Things, that’s our idea to let your object interact with you. If you are a new user in the world of Arduino (and similar) microcontroller boards, maybe you came across the idea to control objects around you, interconnect them and have remote interactions. This is…
In this world we have open source projects of all kinds: from the software that runs the Internet, to tractors, laser cutters or 3D printers. Lately I have often wondered though: why don’t we have an open source toaster or a washing machine? A credible plan for a open source washing machine would have an…
The pleasure and passion to start a new project from an almost casual intuition, to create a new prototype, and then make it better and eventually available on the market does not always comply with the existing rules and laws in Europe. My personal experience in building Open Source, DIY Hardware from the Global…
Amazing news for geeks as this week Ford launched it’s OpenXC SDK to create applications using car data. The kit has been developed thanks to the collaboration between the automotive giant and Buglabs, an ultra innovative company specialized in tools for open innovation in Internet of Things thanks to products like the Swarm platform. The Open XC,…
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…
The TV transmitter we present today generates a stream containing four TV programs and broadcasts it on a frequency in the DTT standard . Ideal for stacking in an antenna system, audiovisual channels generated on-site or from other sources like a decoder for satellite television. With this project you can make a small local TV…
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