Wang believes open-source hardware will follow the popularity of open-source software, as people want to create more physical things.
An intercontinental project that bridged citizen science, open data, open source hardware, civic hacking and the Internet of things to monitor, share and map radiation data?
The open source hardware company has partnered with Sparkfun ( see my popular post on Nathan Seidle and his leadership style) to manufacture the circuit boards.
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These include the Raspberry Pi, which you all know very well, along with the Timesquare DIY Watch Kit and MintyBoost, the open-source hardware charger.
The resulting open-source hardware platforms bridge desktop and embedded development, allowing developers to design to their specification and collaborate with the open source community on creative new applications.
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OpenXC platform will transform the car into a plug-and-play platform where interchangeable open-source hardware and software modules that can be quickly and easily customized by developers for specific tasks.
There are free Android and iOS apps for those that just want to check their vitals and be done with it, but tinkerers can have a field day with the open-source hardware and upcoming API.
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Keyglove is an Open Source Hardware (OSHW) project that's intended to eliminate those clunky keyboards and unmanageable mice from the computing process altogether, instead engaging a series of conductive sensors that, when touched together, mimic a keystroke.
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Computers will be able to improve their own source codes and hardware in ways we puny humans could never conceive.
But an open-source approach to hardware might decrease that difference.
It turned out there was a voracious appetite -- particularly among a growing class of DIY geeks -- for a cheap, easily-programmable, open-source piece of hardware that would allow them to let their imaginations run wild.
At the same time we have been accused of having only a single source for our military hardware and spending so much on that hardware.
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One way is to apply the open source software process to hardware, driving down IT hardware costs while driving up the ability to customize IT infrastructure.
The OpenStack Foundation and the Open Compute Project is a community of 150 companies committed to building cloud architecture based upon open source software and open hardware standards.
As such, Puzzlebox will also freely distribute all material in relation to the project, from the source code to the hardware schematics to how-to guides for dismantling and reassembling the whole thing.
And just as open-source programmers collaborate by sharing software code, engineers are already starting to collaborate on open-source designs for objects and hardware.
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To this end, members of the WEF YGL are creating technology blueprints, which use widely available commodity hardware and open source software as the building blocks of high-performing, cost-effective cloud solutions.
Rather than offering a readymade robot like Nao that largely makes software the focus of user customization, cSpring is designed to be highly customizable (and open source) on both the hardware and software fronts.
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Peter Semmelhack, founder of an outfit call Bug Labs, wants to take open-source even farther--into hardware.
Windows users should have relatively simple control through an app if they just want to play, but where Fritz may shine is its open source nature: the code and hardware schematics will be available for extending support, changing the look or building a larger robot where Fritz is just one part.
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Netflix said that as part of the project it is sharing its hardware design and the open source software components of the server used in the project.
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Naturally, it's also designed to be fully hackable and customizable (both the hardware and software are open source), and it even includes some strap mounts so you can wear it like a keytar.
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The Oculus folks -- no longer a single man, but now a company of around 20 employees -- worked with Epic Games on getting the source code up and running for the hardware prototype, though it's unclear if it'll ever actually be released to developers or the general public.
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Well, our interest was certainly piqued by that OLPC XO-2 mockup that surfaced yesterday, and now the Guardian is saying that the hardware development will take place open source.
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Since both the hardware and the software are open-source, anyone can change things to suit their purpose, which like most things at the fair is bound to encourage even more innovation.
But what if the open source community builds products that automate Big Data complexity on commodity hardware?
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Hardware backdoors can exist without being programmed into the source code.
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Before this strategy Nokia had the goal of developing Meego who was an open source Linux platform made with the help of Intel and other hardware makers with the objective of being capable of be instaled on phones, tablets, PCs, GPS, Televisions and making everything syncronized.
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Both the hardware and the software that make up Bartendro are open source, and the team behind it even wants to create an online drink compendium that's free as in freedom and beer.
The open source software community has traditionally assumed that their software would run on commodity hardware.
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