Hardware ninja and engineer Amanda “w0z” Wozniak gave a talk at Toorcon called “Hardware Will Cut You,” all about the electronics design process: The hardware design process is fraught with pitfalls, from library component sketchiness, parts availability, erroneous data sheets, underestimates of complexity and long lead times. Designing good hardware on time, on budget and […]
Open Hardware Summit Forum – TOWARDS a 1.0 – feedback… ayah did a great job compiling the feedback for the open hardware definition draft 0.4. the compiled document is here (http://goo.gl/Dzbe). this lists the definition clauses as they stand today in the draft, and below that – points/comments made by people in the forums, lists, […]
This Netduino powered Deadmau5 mask is just in time for Halloween. It ‘listens’ to the music and displays colors based on it’s beat. You could do a lot more with all that processing power, maybe there will be a v2.0?
The World Maker Faire episode of The Martha Stewart Show is now online! TV-less or just Hallmark Channel-less? Watch the video clips on Martha’s site (sadly not embeddable here). We’re ecstatic to see some of our favorite makers featured on the show yesterday. I was lucky enough to attend with Maker Faire director Sherry Huss, […]
AT&T and Open Source Hardware maker Bug Labs Announce Partnership… Peter writes – In my post on September 22nd, I mentioned that the carriers in this country are becoming increasingly motivated and interested in inspiring whole new ways to innovate and bring new wireless devices to market, preferably on their networks. If you combine their […]
The maker of the Netduino powered Morse code interpreter admits that this is completely pointless project. However, he leaned a lot about programming and problem solving during the build process, so it really isn’t so useless!
On Friday the new OSHW definition and overview drafts were posted, there are great discussions going on here’s a round up! Adafruit – Open-source hardware statement of principles and draft definition 0.4 Arduino blog – Open-source hardware statement of principles and definition. Bug Labs – Update Open Hardware Definition. MAKE Magazine – Open-source hardware statement […]
