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Adafruit Offers $1000 Bounty for Open-Source Kinect Drivers
Open-source hardware company Adafruit has declared open season on Microsoft’s Kinect, offering a $1000 bounty to anyone who can write and release open-source drivers for the camera. Kinect, released...
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Kinect Running on Multiple Platforms, Looking Cool
Spurred on by cash prizes, cool applications and the glory of getting code to work, Xbox Kinect hackers have opened up the camera and have it running on full throttle. Here’s a short list of what’s...
View Article8 Cool Raspberry Pi Projects for Diminutive Computing Fun
Raspberry Pi, the new and novel credit card-sized computer, has inspired the minds and workshops of an entire hacking community, not only developing software projects for it, but creating external...
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Ex-Restaurant Man Erects the ‘Internet of Places’
A former restaurant manager is using open source hardware to build a product that can make kitchens, greenhouses, and wine cellars smarter. He calls it The Internet of Places. The post Ex-Restaurant...
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World’s Smallest Drone Autopilot System Goes Open Source
The Lisa/S chip is 4 square centimeters -- about the same size as a Euro coin. But packed into this 1.9 gram chip is everything you need to autopilot an aerial drone. The post World’s Smallest Drone...
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Out in the Open: The German Plot to Give You Complete Control of Your Phone
When your last smartphone started to get a little long in the tooth, you probably just bought a new one. Maybe you kept the old one around as a backup. Maybe you recycled it. But, chances are, whatever...
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Out in the Open: This Farmbot Makes Growing Food as Easy as Playing Farmville
One way to address our farming challenges is through various high-tech practices collectively known as precision agriculture. Precision farmers use technology such as self-steering tractors and aerial...
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The Almost Completely Open Source Laptop Goes on Sale
Andrew “bunnie” Huang and Sean “xobs” Cross want to sell you a laptop you can completely trust. Earlier this year, the two Singapore-based engineers fashioned a laptop made almost entirely from open...
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Out in the Open: A Virtual Reality Gadget That Anyone Can Hack
After a decade on the back burner, virtual reality is hot again. Most of this resurgence is down to Oculus, the headset maker that Facebook acquired for $2 billion this past March, but Sony is also...
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Watch These Guys Make a Shark Swim With Their Minds
You could control robot sharks with your mind in the comfort of your own home thanks to OpenBCI, a Brooklyn company building open source brain computer interfaces. The post Watch These Guys Make a...
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Arduino’s New CEO, Federico Musto, May Have Fabricated His Academic Record
WIRED has learned that the new CEO, who holds a 50 percent stake in the brand, appears to have bolstered his reputation with credentials he didn't earn. The post Arduino’s New CEO, Federico Musto, May...
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An Aerospace Coder Drags a Stodgy Industry Toward Open Source
How one software engineer at a traditional space company convinced the bigwigs to share his command and control program. The post An Aerospace Coder Drags a Stodgy Industry Toward Open Source appeared...
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