Here is the dilemma:
I love my kids. I enjoy tinkering with electronics. I have one life to live.
Will I look back at the end of my days and say, “I should have spent more time playing with my kids.” Or will I say, “I should have spent more time playing with electronics.”
I [...]
If you had your own drone, what would you do with it?
DIY Drones is a company that has open sourced the designs for a universal autopilot – ArduPilot – as the name implies, it incorporates portions of an Arduino microcontroller.
This is cool, because a large community has formed [...]
Want to go to outer space? Think a group of enthusiasts could get there…with Open Source Hardware?
Mach30 proposes this bold idea. To design, test and build some of the most complex machines on the planet – machines that will be trusted to safely [...]
Contributed to any bold Open Hardware projects lately?
Designed anything that will help generations to come?
How about a Civilization Starter Kit – want to work on that? Then join Open Source Ecology and work on the Global Village Construction Set – 50 machines that can build just about anything you (or [...]
If you wanted to do some Open stuff in the cellular market, where would you start?
And what really goes on inside the mobile phone industry, anyway?
Listen to Sean from OpenMoko describe the journey of Neo FreeRunner, as open hardware of a phone you will find on the market.
The Neo [...]
You can make it faster, but it may not go as long.
You can make it greener, but it may increase production time.
A stove that is ultra-affordable, DIY-able with local material and fuel efficient may not be the best stove avialable, but it is a good stove – and [...]
Have you ever imagined your design being built on a larger scale?
Wouldn’t it be cool to have other people benefiting from your effort and creativity?
But that whole manufacture process sounds a bit intimidating…
Look no further than Seeed Studio, an open hardware savvy manufacturer located in Shenzhen, China, to shine some [...]
Do you learn more sitting in a classroom or getting your hands dirty?
What better way to learn how computer numerical control machines work then to build your own?
This open hardware CNC project is all about education – the design and ease of build seeks to make CNC accessible to artists, designers and makers [...]
Need to figure out a chip…fast?
Bus Pirate may be just what you have been looking for.
Designed by Dangerous Prototypes, the Bus Pirate is a universal bus interface that can slash the learning curve when you are figuring out a chip.
Every month Dangerous Prototypes releases a new open source [...]
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