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Open Hardware Summit 2011 Call for Submissions
The Open Hardware Summit is gearing up for their second annual conference, which is to be held on September 15th, 2011 in New York City. The summit aims to be a venue where users can present, discuss,...
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Need cheap and plentiful project boxes? Hit up your local hardware store
One thing that really makes a project complete is the way in which you package your final product. Some people are fine with a piece of protoboard with wires sticking out in every direction, and truth...
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osPID: the Open Source PID Controller
Need PID control in your next project? Perhaps this little beauty can help. It’s an Open Source PID controller that also follows the Open Hardware guidelines. [Brett Beauregard] based the project on...
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Makerbot, Occupy Thingiverse, and the reality of selling Open Hardware
Yesterday, Makerbot Industries introduced the Replicator 2, a very good-looking 3D printer that will is probably the closest thing we’ll see to a proper ‘consumer’ 3D printer for a year or so. There’s...
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Free Software Foundation certifies hardware that Respects Your Freedom
The Free Sofware Foundation, the very same organization responsible for the GNU General Public License and open source advocacy on the part of the Free Software stalwart [Richard Stallman], has...
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Free Hackaday stuff at next week’s Open Hardware Summit
If you’re headed off to the Open Hardware Summit next week we’ve got some free swag for you. Readers paying any attention know that Hackaday was acquired by Supply Frame over the summer. There had...
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Open Hardware Summit 2013 – Part 1: Demos
The 2013 Open Hardware Summit took place on September 6th at MIT. There was a wide array of demos and talks covering Open Hardware methodologies and projects. After the break I’ll be covering the demo...
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Oculus Releases Open Source Hardware
Oculus VR, makers of the very cool Oculus Rift VR display, are making their first steps towards open hardware. Their first project is a latency tester, meant to precisely measure the latency of a VR...
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Your Weekend Plans: Hardware Freedom Day
Hardware Freedom Day is tomorrow: Saturday, March 15th 2014. This is the third year for the event, which seeks to raise awareness about what Open Hardware is, and to encourage hackers and makers to...
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Sci-Fi Contest Prize Acquisition Issues — Oh Noes!
We spent quite a bit of time picking out prizes for the Sci-Fi contest. But wouldn’t you know it, literally the day after announcing the contest we cued up The Amp Hour and heard about a worldwide...
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The Hackaday Prize: You Build Open Hardware, We Send You to Space
For weeks we’ve been teasing you that something BIG was coming. This is it. Six months from now one hardware hacker will claim The Hackaday Prize and in doing so, secure the grand prize of a trip...
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Bunnie Talks to Us About Novena Open Hardware Laptop
We made a point to stop by the Freescale booth at Maker Faire where [Bunnie Huang] was showing off the Novena laptop. His past accolades (Wikipedia page) and the rabid success of the crowd funding...
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Open Design. It is The Way.
It seems like I’m constantly having the same discussions with different people about the Open Design aspect of The Hackaday Prize. I get arguments from both sides; some attest that there should be no...
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The Hackaday Store Lives Again!
Once upon a time there was a store where you could find the most amazing Hackaday shirts and other swag. If you managed to get one of the rare Jolly Wrencher adorned shirts back then, it’s probably...
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CircuitHub Launches Group Buy Crowdsourcing Campaigns
Kickstarter isn’t the solution to every manufacturing hurdle, you know? Crowdsourcing—everybody’s favorite cliché to invoke after sharing their less-than-half-baked merchandise idea—has expanded to...
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Is The Arduino Yun Open Hardware?
According to [Squonk42], nope. And we think he’s probably right. The Yun is an Arduino Leonardo with an Atheros AR9331 WiFi SoC built in. It’s a great idea, pairing the Arduino with a tiny WiFi router...
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An Interview With The CEO Of MakerBot
A few days ago, we posed a question to the Hackaday community. If you could ask the CEO of MakerBot a question, what would it be? It’s an interesting proposition; there is no company serving the maker...
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Hackaday’s Interview with Arduino CEO [Massimo Banzi]
I caught up with [Massimo Banzi] at the Shenzhen Maker Faire to talk about manufacturing in China, the current and future of Arduino, and how recent events may shape the Open Hardware landscape. The...
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Open Source Hardware Certification Announced
Last weekend was the Open Hardware Summit in Philadelphia, and the attendees were nearly entirely people who build Open Source Hardware. The definition of Open Source Hardware has been around for a...
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25 Years of Hardware Manufacturing in Plovdiv
Plovdiv, Bulgaria has a long history of design and innovation going back at least 6000 years to cultures like the Thracians, Celts, and Romans. In the last decade it is also an important center for...
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