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A Review Of The Printrbot 3D Printer

If you're looking around for 3D printers that are both inexpensive and open source friendly, the Printrbot Simple Kit will probably catch your attention. Read More »

Building An Open Source Hardware Movement

Giovanni Tapang | The Manila Times | September 20, 2012

Last Saturday’s celebration of this year’s Software Freedom Day in UP Diliman was a rewarding experience both for its organizers and the students and enthusiasts that braved the rain and floods to participate... Read More »

Hyve Solutions Contributes OCP-Ready Server Design for Standard 19” Datacenter Racks to Open Compute Project

Press Release | Hyve Solutions | September 16, 2013

Hyve Solutions,,,announced that it has contributed its OCP-Ready server design engineered to fit into a standard 19” datacenter rack to the Open Compute Project. Read More »

$99 Parallella Supercomputer uses Open Source Hardware

Staff Writer | CNXSoft | June 30, 2013

Parallella is a low cost supercomputer designed by Adapteva using Xilinx Zynq-7010/7020 FPGA+2x Cortex A9 SoC combined with Adapteva Ephipany 16 or 64 cores epiphany coprocessor. [...] Read More »

$99 Supercomputer Parallella Now Fully Open Source Hardware

Saurav Modak | Muktware | July 3, 2013

While there is a open source alternative for almost every useful closed program out there, open source hardware are however rare. Parallella [...] had promised earlier that they will make their hardware open source. The campaign is now over and now it seems that they have fulfilled their promise. Read More »

10 of the Most incredible Open Source Hardware projects born in 2013

Simone Cicero | Open Electronics | December 27, 2013

This post celebrates a few of the most incredible Open Source Hardware projects from 2013. Most of these projects were crowdfunded Read More »

10 Open Hardware Projects To Save The Earth

Tristan Copley Smith | Shareable | March 24, 2014

On the coattails of the rise of intellectual property and economic monopolies, the Open Source movement is thriving, expanding public access to knowledge, culture and tools. Advocates have opened up everything from software to science, media to politics...and of course, data.

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2013 Open Hardware Summit

Jeremy Blum | JeremyBlum.com | October 7, 2013

After attending the annual Open Hardware Summit in both 2011 and 2012, I returned again this year to revel in the excitement that surrounds the open source hardware community. Every year, the summit continues to grow, with over 500 people attending this year’s summit. Held on the MIT campus, this year’s summit did not disappoint [...]. Read More »

A Genius And His Motley Cart Of Pioneering Innovations

Alex Mathew | The New Indian Express | September 1, 2014

It just took around two weeks of hard work and a paltry `4,800 for Arvind Sanjeev, the smart geek at tech domain, to make the prototype of Smart Cap, the wearable head mounted display device that catapulted him into the league of promising young entrepreneurs...

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A Hardware Renaissance In Silicon Valley

Nick Bilton and John Markoff | New York Times | August 25, 2012

In recent years, Silicon Valley seems to have forgotten about silicon. It’s been about dot-coms, Web advertising, social networking and apps for smartphones. But there are signs here that hardware is becoming the new software. Read More »

A Miniature 'Open Source' Mobile Clinic For The Developing World

Ben Schiller | Co.Exist | October 16, 2013

Basic medical tests once required a trip to a clinic. These days, anyone can measure their pulse, heart rate, and blood pressure using cheap digital equipment. Read More »

A Peek At The Open Hardware Summit 2013

Caleb Kraft | EE Times | September 9, 2013

This weekend, in the wankel-shaped dome of the Kresge auditorium at MIT, nearly 1,000 obsessed and passionate people who believe in giving away their work came together. Known as the Open Hardware Summit, this was the fourth gathering of these peculiar and wonderful people who have gathered to discuss open-source hardware. Read More »

AMD Debuts First Open Compute Project Open 3.0 Motherboard

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | ZDNet | January 17, 2013

AMD is the first to unveil its Open Compute Project "open source" motherboard. Called the Open 3.0, the board is suitable for cloud server, storage servers, and high-performance computing clusters. Read More »

Announcing The Challenges For The 2013 International Space Apps Challenge

Nick Skytland | open.NASA | March 18, 2013

The International Space Apps Challenge is an international mass collaboration focused on space exploration that takes place over 48-hours in cities around the world. The event embraces collaborative problem solving with a goal of producing relevant open-source solutions. Today, we are announcing the challenges for this years event! Read More »

Arduino Creator Explains Why Open Source Matters In Hardware, Too

Jon Brodkin | Ars Technica | October 14, 2013

Most of the technology world is familiar with open source software and the reasons why, in some eyes, it's more appealing than proprietary software. When software's source code is available for anyone to inspect, it can be examined for security flaws, altered to suit user wishes, or used as the basis for a new product. Read More »