Live streaming from the Open Hardware Summit
We’re live streaming the Open Hardware Summit at the New York Hall of Science right now on Ustream! We’ll take your questions to relay to panelists in the chat. Use Twitter hashtag #openhwsummit, too.
Open Source Hardware
Open Hardware: What’s It All About? @ Linux.com
Great article! Open Hardware: What’s It All About? @ Linux.com…. Open source, open licensing, free redistribution, collaborative, and community-based development – many hands make light work. They’ve done wonders for Linux, but can these concepts apply to hardware as well as software? As reported on Linux.com in 2007, the inspiration for open hardware has been […]
Beagleboard Ebook reader
Justin Huynh over at Liquidware has pieced together another Beagleboard gadget. This time around he’s focused on building a DIY Beagleboard Ebook reader out of snap-on components and the open source FBReader software. It won’t fit in your pocket, but it more than makes up for it in hackability.
Big week for ARM
ARM had not one but two articles in the NYTimes this week (same author, Ashlee Vance)… ARM Chips May Spread Into Everyday Items… ARM, which designs the low-power chips that go into just about every cellphone sold today, commands a prime position when it comes to one of the next major technological revolutions. This is […]
ChronoDot is now Open Source
Garrett Mace of Macetech has announced the company’s first entry in the open source hardware realm, with the release of the ChronoDot RTC as an OSHW project. Over the past few years, a lot of small electronics hardware businesses have been starting up. Many of the more successful businesses and projects have adopted “open-source” philosophy […]
Booting the Hawkboard through Mac OS X
The Embedded Linux Wiki has great instructions for getting up and running with the Hawkboard, but they are geared toward people using Linux. Although I’ve got a virtual machine handy running Linux, I do most of my work on the Mac, so I looked into the steps needed to boot the Hawkboard under the Mac.
Open source pick & place machine
Tim from Boston, MA, uploaded his design for a pick & place head for a CNC machine to Thingiverse. This is a vacuum pick-and-place head design for automated electronic assembly. It features a stepper-driven rotary head with Luer-Lock port for interchangeable needles, and a feature for attachment of an “eyeball” style Webcam for optical placement […]
