Open Source Hardware

Part of The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009 Telecommunications – These projects use the telephone system in some way or are related to cell phones (or in one example, are cell phones). It’s popular to open source the software on phones now, and slowly but surely we might see more phone […]

Part of The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009 Transportation – There’s just one in the transportation category, an electronic fuel injection project. While there is always talk of an “open source” automobile, there mostly design projects and not a project with downloads, files, software, etc – in a few years we […]

Part of The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009 UAVs – A Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is an aircraft that has the capability of fully autonomous flight, without a pilot in control. Amateur UAVs are non-military and non-commercial. They typically fly under “recreational” exceptions to FAA regulations on UAVs, so long as […]

Part of The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009 Wireless and GPS – From an open GPS tracker to a small wireless device that works with the Arduino, this is a fairly new category and likely one that will grow as more spectrum frees up. JeeNode The JeeNode is based on an […]

Follow up: Chandra Rathakrishnan (Fusion Garage, maker of the CrunchPad, er, was/is) did that video call today. There is new information, but it seems the proclamation of the tablet being “open source” from the start, isn’t being addressed at all… Here’s a run down from Engadget. JooJoo will be $499, available at thejoojoo.com on December […]

Will Fusion Garage’s Chandrasekar “Chandra” Rathakrishnan stick to open sourcing the CrunchPad? Maybe someone can ask at the video call on Monday… Chandra if you’re Google alerting this, there’s an overview below, so far no one at TechCrunch have replied to our emails… If it’s not going to be open source as promised, that’s fine […]