Laoban Soundsystem via Michael! Laoban Soundsystem is a 6,000-watt massive soundsystem fabricated in China. The plans to make it are 100% copyleft under a Creative Commons share-alike license. This copyleft hardware is called Qi Hardware (http://qi-hardware.com). Laoban is Qi Hardware. All steps needed to build the speakers are documented and the knowledge to reproduce the […]
Another day, another cool-sounding Kickstarter project. This one is titled E1: synthetic intelligence, open source. E1 is an inexpensive open source hardware kit in the same theme as the Arduino–for bringing synthetic intelligence to electronics projects. We’ve made tremendous progress over the past year, but now we need your help to get it manufactured. A […]
Deane Rimerman, of ReadWriteWeb, put together a top ten list of YouTube’s most popular videos introducing the concepts behind the “internet of things” (basically sensors and microcontrollers connected to the internets). Our “Introduction of Arduino” video, from 2007, starring Bre Pettis and Joe Grand, is #2 on the list. Here’s a nice intro to the […]
Milkymistâ„¢ :: interactive VJ station… An open source interactive VJ station Design files, source and schematics included. Features: XC6SLX45 Spartan-6 FPGA 128MB 32-bit DDR400 SDRAM 32MB parallel flash VGA output, 24bpp, up to 140MHz pixel clock Multi-standard video input (PAL/SECAM/NTSC) AC’97 audio 10/100 Ethernet Memory card Two connectors that accept USB peripherals Two DMX512 ports […]
The Open Hardware Summit is approaching, it’s the day before Maker Faire NYC – September 23rd. This is one the first conferences devoted to open source hardware (celebrating the draft of the OSHW definition). Like most “open” efforts the conference will rely on the community to support its efforts, it will be what we all […]
Deadline extended, if you do OSH – submit a talk! **Call for Speakers***Please Redistribute*** NOTE: CALL HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO AUG 3rd! OPEN HARDWARE SUMMIT: www.openhardwaresummit.org Bug Labs, Creative Commons and MAKE invite open hardware advocates to submit a talk to the Open Hardware Summit. The Open Hardware Summit will be a venue to present, […]
When people ask “what’s next” for Open Source Hardware, I think projects like this will be the direction some of the makers will head – Check out Sacha De’Angeli’s project, the first open source STM – Building the first Open Source (inexpensive) Scanning-Tunneling Electron Microscope (STM) – With just enough electronics knowledge to be dangerous […]
