Category: AB Open

News and updates on developments at AB Open.

Wuthering Bytes 2017 Festival Day Video

Wuthering Bytes 2017 Festival Day uploaded to YouTube. We’re pleased to announce that video from the following talks has now been edited and uploaded to YouTube: Build communities, not products — Ian Drysdale Balancing the very hot and the very cold – how do you keep something “just right” in… Read More

Learning to Speak Machine, Caroline Gorski — Wuthering Bytes 2017 (VIDEO)

The next video from Wuthering Bytes 2017 to be edited and published to YouTube is of Caroline Gorski’s talk at Festival Day. Caroline is a commercial technologist, strategist and story-teller, who at the time was Head of Internet of Things at the Digital Catapult, and has since gone to… Read More

Dr David Hartley FBCS — Wuthering Bytes 2017 Keynote (VIDEO)

Last year we were truly honoured to have Dr David Hartley FBCS give the opening keynote at the Wuthering Bytes festival. Amongst his many achievements, Dr Hartley was Director of the University of Cambridge Computing Service from 1970–1994, Chief Executive of United Kingdom Joint Academic Network (JANET) 1994–1997, and he… Read More

Getting Started with the HiFive Unleashed

Creating a new bootable Micro SD card, building a custom Poky Linux system, and running Debian on the world’s first RISC-V-based, Linux-capable development board. The HiFive Unleashed was unveiled back at FOSDEM only a matter of months ago and so, unsurprisingly, it’s still relatively early days for Linux… Read More

Unique Circumference Datacentre-in-a-Box Clusters hit Crowd Supply

Halifax, UK, 18thMay 2018 —Open-source and technical communities consultancy AB Open and its hardware division Ground Electronics have launch a campaign for Circumference, a family of custom-designed desktop cluster computing units based around the popular Raspberry Pi and UDOO x86 single-board computer families. Available to pre-order now on crowdfunding… Read More

Six Years of Progress in Open Source Mobile Infrastructure

A look at open source cellular progress over the past six years and more recent developments which suggest that a bright future lays ahead. Six years ago today The H – Open published an article I wrote entitled, Building a GSM network with open source. In this I covered… Read More

Ground Electronics Unveils the Circumference Pi Cluster

Ground Electronics, AB Open’s manufacturing division, today unveils a new “datacentre-in-a-box” platform targeting software development, testing, and education: the Raspberry Pi-powered Circumference. Presented to the public for the first time today ahead of a crowdfunding campaign launch in the coming weeks, Circumference is designed to offer all the functionality of… Read More

Flood Network Partners with AB Open on River Level Sensor Initiative

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Five smart sensors to be installed in Calder Valley for citizen-science flood monitoring project. Halifax, UK, 26th September 2017 — Open-source and technical communities consultancy AB Open and citizen science initiative Flood Network have jointly announced their partnership to install Internet of Things (IoT) river level sensors… Read More

Wuthering Bytes 2017

With Gareth on vacation there’s no Community Round-Up this fortnight, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to provide a rundown on what we have in store for the annual Wuthering Bytes technology festival — running over 10 days again! — that will get off to a start in… Read More

Microchip Technology Partners with AB Open for IoTUK Boost Programme

Halifax, West Yorkshire, 20th June 2017—Open-source and technical communities consultancy AB Open has announced a partnership with Microchip Technology Incorporated as part of the IoTUK Boost project launched by the Digital and Future Cities Catapults. Read More

My Time at AB Open

Over the course of starting intern at AB Open and undertake this project, I’ve learned more here than I did in my whole time in formal education. Well, that might be a slight exaggeration, but only slight. Read More

AB Open Names SME Cohort Participating in LPWAN Technology Programme

Eight businesses selected to participate in IoTUK LPWAN Boost. Halifax, West Yorkshire, 3rd April 2017 — Open-source and technical communities consultancy AB Open has released the names of businesses chosen to participate in a free long-range wireless communications network testbed built with the Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M)… Read More