open source hardware (OSHW)

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Solid Learning Resources for Raspberry Pi Arrive

Sam Dean | OStatic | December 9, 2013

...the diminutive $25/$35 Linux computer dubbed Raspberry Pi has emerged as one of the biggest open source stories of this year, and the two millionth Pi device recently sold. Read More »

Sony SmartWatch Takes Wearable Tech into Open-Source Territory

Jolie O'Dell | Venture Beat (VB) | June 13, 2013

In an interesting twist on the open source hardware movement, Sony has just announced it’s opening up its SmartWatch for your hacking pleasure. Read More »

SparkFun CEO Nathan Seidle To Speak At TEDxBoulder Event

Press Release | SparkFun Electronics | September 20, 2012

SparkFun Electronics, a provider of parts, knowledge and passion for electronics creation, is proud to announce CEO Nathan Seidle will be presenting at the third annual TEDxBoulder  event on Saturday, Sept. 22. Read More »

SparkFun Engineer To Speak At 2012 Open Hardware Summit

Press Release | SparkFun Electronics | September 11, 2012

SparkFun Electronics (http://www.sparkfun.com), a provider of parts, knowledge and passion for electronics creation, is honored to announce Engineer Mike Hord's presentation at the 2012 Open Hardware Summit (http://summit.oshwa.org/). Read More »

SparkFun’s Chris Taylor: Community Key To Open-Source Hardware

Suzanne Deffree and Chris Taylor | EDN Network | April 4, 2013

When it comes down to it, engineer and seven-year SparkFun Electronics veteran Chris Taylor believes anything can be open source, to be shared and improved. He recently spoke with EDN about open-source hardware (OSH). Read More »

Steam Punks

Jeffrey Winters | Mechanical Engineering | June 1, 2012

How many of your possessions could you make yourself? A couple of amateur engineers  are working to design and build a set of tools that would enable the self-reliant to make everything they need. Read More »

Steve Wozniak Just Backed A DIY Computer On Kickstarter—And So Have 12,000 Others

Leo Mirani | Quartz | December 17, 2013

The creators of Kano, a kit to assemble your own mini-computer, asked for $100,000 on Kickstarter. One day short of the end of the company’s campaign, they’ve raised $1.35 million from nearly 12,000 backers including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler. [...] Read More »

Student Proposes Open Source Alternative To GPS Based On Seismic Waves

Carl Franzen | The Verge | February 19, 2013

Global positioning system (GPS) satellites are great for getting around and looking up directions and smartphones and tablets, but they are controlled by the US Defense Department, which has degraded public signals in the past, and one European art student thinks that an open source alternative based on ground vibrations would be better. Read More »

Success in the Second Year of the Open Hardware Summit

Jon Masters | OpenSource.com | September 28, 2011

The Open Hardware Summit (OHS), now in its second year, brings together folks from all different backgrounds and truly represents a melting pot of those with interests in the open hardware movement...The keynote was presented by the Arduino team, who addressed issues of scale and running a successful business--software can be entirely free, but hardware has an intrinsic cost, and so there must always be a business model associated with it. Read More »

Synflow Creates An Open-Source Hardware Ethernet MAC To Demonstrate Next-Generation Design

Press Release | Synflow | April 7, 2014

Synflow SAS announced today that it will start providing support for the first open-source hardware Ethernet MAC core written in a modern language, available on Github at https://github.com/synflow/ethernet-mac.

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Ten Open Source Hardware And Design Projects That Are Setting New Standards

Simone Cicero | Open Electronics | September 12, 2013

The Open Source hardware and design community is on fire these days. Apart from the projects that eventually already gained worldwide recognition such as Open Source Ecology, DIYDrones, Arduino or RepRap, many fantastic projects, focused on specific aspects, hold great promises. Read More »

Thanks To 3D Printing And Open Source Hardware, Patent May Be On The Cusp Of A Copyright Moment

Michael Weinburg | Public Knowledge | May 30, 2013

A new wave of creators care about innovating. They care about building things. And they mostly see patents as getting in the way. Read More »

The Chronological History Of 3D Printing

Jesse DePinto and Matthew Juranitch | 3D Creations | August 31, 2012

As the next industrial revolution gets closer and closer, we decided to write a white paper on the past, present and future of 3D printing. In the spirit of open source hardware, let us share our findings. Read More »

The Coming Push For Open Source Everything

Paul Venezia | InfoWorld | July 22, 2013

When we can no longer trust proprietary hardware or software, open source becomes the only option Read More »

The Cornerstones Of The Hardware Revolution

Liam Boogar | Rude Baguette | February 26, 2014

Anyone who worked in technology before 2003 can tell you that it’s no coincidence that startups have exploded in the past 10 years – when servers costs when to zero, and open source software caught up to its proprietary counterpart,  it didn’t matter how many people (a lot) were on the web, because scalability was born. [...] Read More »