The Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) is kicking off the process to create an Open Source Hardware Certification. In addition to all of the amazing things that will happen at this year’s Open Hardware Summit, our goal is to be able to roll out the first version of the Open Source Hardware certification this fall….
[youtube id=”XpYjn9-xgvY” width=”620″ height=”360″] We have already seen many motorized versions of “human traction” transport means: bicycles and scooters, for example, or even some skateboard, but surely we lacked the motorized skateboard controlled by a smartphone. Well, now we have found it! It is a dedicated project, which combines the motorized version of the popular…
Opensource.com published an update of their top open source project management tools review, including new tools available in 2015: “Last year, I covered five of the best open source project management tools, like ProjectLibre and OpenProject. The article struck a chord with readers and continues to prove valuable. So, this year I revisited the tools…
Facebook recently released as an open source project its design for a networking device that it says will coordinates the actions of hundreds of thousands of servers in Facebook’s data centers. The target are the bigs like Cisco and Juniper but, respect to those ones, FB has some secret weapons and a huge knowledge of…
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…
Upverter is a community hosting schematics, blueprints, bill of materials, very often also full layouts. Today they hit an incredible goal, read it directly from their annoucement: “This morning, our community has publicly shared over 32,000 open source hardware designs with the world. They span the full range of dev boards, power supplies, home automation,…
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…
Today we present a Bridge between Raspberry Pi and Arduino that leverages the hardware equipment and the computing power of the first with the shields and the applications of the second. The worlds of Raspberry and Arduino increasingly tend to converge to give users a bridge between the enormous potential of the embedded Linux platform…
3D Racers is a fully customizable racing game with mobile app and Open Hardware from italy.For those not familiar with 3D Printing, 3D Hubs is partnering with the project to provide a 3D service included (which says a lot of the future of 3DHubs as as service also). The project looks really awesome and –…
Another beautiful board is coming to kickstarter: it’s tiny and powerful. Black Swift runs on OpenWRT Linux, and it can be programmed in a bunch of languages, ranging from C/C++ to PHP, Python, Perl, and Bash scripting (there’s also a Node.js port): Black Swift Board is a tiny — almost coin-sized — computer with 32-bit CPU, megabytes…
Very interesting project of an HF/Shortwave Software Defined Transceiver radio. And it’s fully open source (software plus hardware!). We love when kickstarter lets surface such a niche, spectacular project! The Portable Software Defined Radio, or PSDR, is an Open Source, Fully stand-alone HF/Shortwave Software Defined Transceiver. It includes a Vector Network Analyzer and Antenna Analyzer as well…
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