One of the first applications of the original Raspberry Pi was building a homebrew smartphone, but the launch of the smaller Raspberry Pi Zero, followed by the Raspberry Pi Zero W, has allowed makers to build even smaller versions. Resembling nothing more than one of the old Nokia 3410s turned inside-out, the ZeroPhone is designed…
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…
We received a submission on our Submit channel regarding this cool tool for USB enabled Smartphone accessories development: USB2Go will be open source, and it will have its own forums and community center, where we will answer your questions, other developers can help you, and you can show your projects to the world. We are…
Chinese giant ZTE unveiled Eco-Mobius at the CES conferences earlier this month. The move looks highly interesting and confirms that modularity is THE new trend in Consumer Electronics hardware. No mention on Open Source role (differently from Motorola that seems to embrace the principle in Project Ara – we covered earlier). If you’re interested in…
[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…
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