GitLab is the new GitHub?
With a new version of its product in the offing and $4 million in Series A funding in its pocket,…
How Open Source and Crowdfunding Are Creating a New Business Niche – Who benefits?
A modular laptop built with a Raspberry Pi. An ergonomic, programmable, mechanical keyboard made from slabs of maple, so it…
Open Source Project Proposes Vision-Free Grasping With RFID and Touchscreens
Liatris is an open-source hardware and software project (led by roboticist Mark Silliman) that does away with vision completely. Instead,…
Open source hardware and software key to unlocking IoT development?
It’s so simple, really. What we all want is to build something that solves a problem in the best way…
Open source design applies to source code…font! Here’s the new “hack” for a relaxing coding!
Hack is characterized by a large x-height, wide aperture, and low contrast design in order to be “highly legible” at…
Top 15 Facebook Open Source Projects You Must Know and use for your Maker’s projects
Facebook contribution to open source can be largely categorized into Mobile, Web, Back-end and Infrastructure. Top open source projects made…
US DoD adopts Open Source principles for Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle Systems
Unmanned vehicles are used extensively across government agencies to achieve varied missions including military, border surveillance, mapping, environmental monitoring, disaster…
Dronecode Foundation keeps drone tech open
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’ (UAV) applications and capabilities are advancing at a phenomenal rate, and the cost of these systems are…
1-click Bill of Material automatic purchase: no more annoying click-sessions to buy what you need
If you love making your own electronic boards you know how annoying is to purchase online all the components needed.…
How “open” is the future of PC virtual reality?
A popular reddit thread over the weekend has brought to the surface a long-roiling, behind-the-scenes debate about the future of…