Each year over 100,000 people visit the Las Vegas area to celebrate consumer electronics at an event called “CES” – in addition to all of the announcements, press releases and the constant coverage on our favorite gadget sites there’s been a dark cloud creeping in, there seems to be a growing resentment among the folks […]
ArduPilot – Arduino compatible UAV controller. You’ll need a GPS module ($60) and, for all but the most stable planes, a commercial stabilization unit ($70), but still the least expensive autopilot. it’s also a 100% Open source hardware project, schematics and Eagle files on the site. This sold out in 7 minutes today, but don’t […]
New open source hardware business start up coming out in 2009 – Robotics, from Chris Anderson, Wired’s editor in chief. I’m extremely excited about this. Update: Chris posted more about the biz model here.
The sensor module for BugBases is out! – The BUGvonHippel. BUGvonHippel is a breakout board module which includes a female USB 2.0 port… BUGvonHippel - We’ve talked about it before, but it’s finally here! Named after Prof. Eric von Hippel at MIT who inspired it’s creation, the BUGvonHippel further enables developers to create new and […]
This is a great open source MPG instrument for your car. It’s based on the Arduino micro-controller along with a few other sensors. I really like all these open-source projects that are springing up all over the place. Amazing! MPGuino is part of the OpenGauge instrumentation effort, which was created to make available efficiency instrumentation […]
We did a massive Arduino gift guide this year and a few folks asked if we had a PDF of it, so here it is! Remember the last day of shipping from the Maker Shed is this Friday, December 19th!
Big holiday sale on the open source hardware product – Bug Labs: BUGbase units. Here’s a note I received from their team today… BUG orders are now shipping within 48 hours of purchase. BUGbase holiday discounts – for a limited time, BUGbase price reduced nearly 30% off MSRP from $349 to $249 2008 was a […]
