open source hardware (OSHW)

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Entrepreneur Of 2012: Limor Fried

Jennifer Wang | Entrepreneur | December 18, 2012

Limor Fried notes that once upon a time, it might have seemed strange for a person to spend an afternoon building something like the MintyBoost, a portable USB mobile-device charger assembled from an Altoids tin and bits of electronic hardware. But if the 50,000 MintyBoost kits sold so far by Fried's company, Adafruit Industries, are any indication, the world is now a different sort of place. Read More »

EVE: Valkyrie, Open Source Hardware, And The Best Practices Guide

Staff Writer | Oculus VR | February 5, 2014

The intersection of transparency and open collaboration between Oculus and the development community often leads to amazing content and inspiring breakthroughs. Today, we’re excited to share a few great examples. Read More »

Facebook Adapts Open Compute For Colo Space

Rich Miller | Data Center Knowledge | October 25, 2012

We’ve been closely tracking the progress of the Open Compute Project, wondering if these uber-efficient open source hardware designs would ever be available at your local colocation center. Facebook has now shared details of its first use of Open Compute hardware in its third-party colo space. Read More »

Facebook Blows Up The Server Industry With New Open Source Hardware

Lucian Parfeni | Softpedia | January 17, 2013

It may seem a bit strange, but Facebook has some serious hardware chops these days. It started with the open hardware server designs, but this year the company is doing one better and unveiling a new standard server design that should allow for much more modular servers and racks. Read More »

Facebook Hands Motherboard Designs To Open Compute Project

James Dohnert | V3.co.uk | January 17, 2013

Facebook has agreed to add its designs for a new common slot architecture specification for datacentre motherboards into the Open Compute Platform (OCP) initiative. Read More »

Facebook Loses Its Open-Source-Hardware Chief To The Startup Life

J. O'Dell | VB News | March 25, 2014

Facebook’s open-source-hardware champion, Frank Frankovsky, has left the building.  In a personal Facebook post, Frankovsky, who headed up the ambitious Open Compute Project and ran Facebook’s own hardware design, announced that he’s leaving to start his own company.

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Facebook Puts Some Brains In Open Vault JBOD Storage

Timonthy Prickett Morgam | The Register | January 22, 2013

At last week's Open Compute Summit 2013, the people behind the open source hardware project were showing off some enhancements for the Open Vault JBOD storage array that Facebook has cooked up for its own use in its two newest data centers and presumably will be added to its existing data center. Read More »

Facebook Shatters The Computer Server Into Tiny Pieces

Cade Metz | Wired | January 16, 2013

As the man at the center of Facebook’s Open Compute Project, Frankovsky spent the last two years rethinking the very essence of the computer hardware that runs the company’s massive social network — and sharing his ever-evolving data center ideology with the rest of the tech world. He’s a kind of hardware philosopher. And now he looks like one too. Read More »

Facebook, Intel, And AMD Bring More Resources To Open Compute Project

Rachel King | ZDNet | January 16, 2013

Facebook, Intel, and AMD are just a few of the Silicon Valley heavyweights bringing more to the open hardware table for the Open Compute Project. Read More »

Five Common Pitfalls To Avoid In Open Source

David Hurley | OpenSource.com | April 24, 2014

Open source software, hardware, and methods are gaining popularity and access to them couldn't be more prolific. If you're thinking about starting a new open source project, there are five common pitfalls you should be aware of before you begin.

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Ford's New Custom Model Is An App Toolkit

Adrian Bridgwater | Dr. Dobb's | January 14, 2013

OpenXC vehicle open source hardware and software platform and toolkits for custom apps Read More »

Four Key Trends Changing Digital Journalism And Society

Alex Howard | O'Reilly Radar | September 28, 2012

It’s not just a focus on data that connects the most recent class of Knight News Challenge winners. They all are part of a distributed civic media community that works on open source code, collects and improves data, and collaborates across media organizations. Read More »

Freematics - Vehicle Telematics With Open-Source Hardware

Stanley Huang | Kickstarter | January 19, 2014

Making it possible, accessible, and affordable to carry out vehicle telematics projects with open-source hardware and mobile gadgets Read More »

Freescale Launches $149 Android Wearables Platform

Stephen Shankland | CNET | January 7, 2014

At CES, the company announces Warp, an open-source electronics board it hopes developers will embrace for a wide range of wearable computing projects. Read More »

From Open Source Software To Open Source Hardware

Robert Viseur | FLOSShub | September 1, 2012

The open source software principles progressively give rise to new initiatives for culture (free culture), data (open data) or hardware (open hardware). The open hardware is experiencing a significant growth but the business models and legal aspects are not well known. This paper is dedicated to the economics of open hardware. Read More »