Super interesting update from the Phonebloks team as Sennheiser, one of the most important player in Hi-Fi Audio, published some great pictures from the work is doing with Phonebloks: Its been a busy two weeks here in San Francisco. We’re attacking the development of our audio blok from all angles – from design aspects and…
I recall I saw this video at the Open Hardware Summit in Rome – Gawin Dapper, CTO of Phonebloks shown it. It’s pretty impressing to see how the guys from Project Ara / Phonebloks just went from an “impossible” project to a working prototype in 2 years. Nothing is impossible! In the video, one of…
A beautiful video from Phonebloks which recaps on the achievements of the year! We all support this project! See our interview with founders Dave Hakkens September 10th, Phonebloks turns one year old and what an eventful, fruitful and action-packed first year it has been. We have gone from one person sitting in his study with an idea…
Dave Hakkens finally had some time to focus on his important side project Precious Plastic: a set of plastic machines, developed to set up a small scale plastic workshop. The machinery is based on general industrial techniques, but designed to build yourself. The machine is easy to use and made to work with recycled plastic. …
Breaking: Project Ara is on its way to release physical Module Developers Kits. I can’t wait to see the first open source phone being sold as a kit or being replicated in self fabrication. Huge. The Module Developers Kit (MDK) defines the Ara platform for module developers and provides reference implementations for various design features….
You know, I love these folks! I love this project! I just can’t wait to see this on the market! In the video the team shows an amazing prototype featuring self locking magnets, and also some preliminary images of the phone configurator UI is shown. Love it! See our coverage of Ara and Phonebloks so…
[youtube id=”T4i3QkSMm18″ width=”620″ height=”360″] Phonebloks and Project Ara Few days ago, after the presentation of the joint venture between Phonebloks and Motorola, called Project Ara, that I pretty enthusiastically commented earlier on this blog, we reached out to Phonebloks website with a contact request. Surprisingly enough we got very soon a very kind response from…
The recently announced Project Ara from Motorola is a groundbreaking news for all the open source community. If the declared objective of Motorola (read Google) – that of truly democratizing the Smartphone (I would say the digital screens) industry and pushing it towards a landscape where it’s easier for new entrants to create products and…
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