Tag: Open Hardware

CERN has officially released version 2.0 of its eponymous Open Hardware Licence (CERN-OHL), designed to simplify the language and make it easier to understand as well as broadening its applicability and introducing three variants for specific requirements. “The CERN-OHL is to hardware what the free and open-source licences are to… Read More

Reverse engineering is often a high-tech, expensive endeavour – but David Freitag’s latest project takes it down to the bare essentials, attacking a USB 3.0 eMMC reader board with nothing more than a desoldering station, sandpaper, and a flatbed scanner. “Say there’s a Chinese silicon vendor which designs and sells… Read More

Sysmocom’s Harald Welte has announced a steep discount on his company’s stock of Fernvale kits, development boards put together by Andrew ‘bunnie’ Huang and Sean ‘Xobs’ Cross for cellular networking projects, dropping the price per kit from €110 to €58.82 (excluding VAT.) Unveiled during a presentation at the 31c3… Read More

OpenMV, an open-source machine vision start-up founded by Kwabena W. Agyeman and Ibrahim Abdalkader, has launched a crowdfunding campaign for its latest creation: an open camera module based on the popular MicroPython environment. “The OpenMV project is about creating low-cost, extensible, Python powered, machine vision modules and aims at becoming… Read More

Devices with M.2 Next-Generation Form Factor (NGFF) slots, typically used for storage devices, can now become LoRaWAN clients thanks to an open-source add-on board from China’s Dragino: The LoRaST. Designed to fit into the M.2 NGFF slots on modern desktop, laptop, and embedded systems, the Dragino LoRaST is based on… Read More

The Open Source Hardware User Group (OSHUG) has announced the schedule for OSHCamp 2018, to take place in Lincoln’s The Blue Room on the 30th of June and 1st July. Announced via a call for participation back in January, the Open Source Hardware Camp (OSHCamp) 2018 is to take… Read More