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How to get involved with the Open Source Hardware Association
Back in October of 2014, I was lucky enough to be elected to the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) board. Because the association received its nonprofit status, the board is finally able to...
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Entroware Announces Aura, a Tiny PC That Runs Ubuntu or Ubuntu MATE 15.04
Entroware introduced today, May 2, their first mini-PC called Aura and powered by Canonical's recently released Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) computer operating system, or the popular Ubuntu MATE 15.04...
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Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom firms join MIPS open-source push
Qualcomm Atheros, Lantiq (part of Intel) and Broadcom have appointed representatives to the board of the Prpl (‘purple’) Foundation, organisation set-up by Imagination Technologies to support...
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MintBox Mini Preview
I’d like to thank CompuLab for sending the development team three MintBox Mini. I just received mine
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Mouser adds to open source board sales channel
The distributor’s Open Source Hardware Technology website now has an updated product selector which allows users to select a board from 30 different parameters including processor type and speed,...
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PiSoC Open Source Development Platform Unveiled (video)
The PiSoC project is currently over on the Kickstarter crowd funding website looking to raise $15,000 in pledges to make the jump from concept to production.
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Should I get an Arduino or a Raspberry Pi?
I spend a lot of time at conferences and events like Maker Faires, and having co-authored a book on the Raspberry Pi, I spend a lot of time talking to people about things like small electronics and...
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The CompuLab Fitlet Is A Neat Little Linux PC With AMD SoC
Earlier this year CompuLab announced the Fitlet PC as a tiny, fanless, Linux-friendly PC. The Fitlets are finally starting to ship at scale and recently I received one of the AMD-powered Fitlets that's...
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Running Linux On The Intel Compute Stick
The Intel Compute Stick has begun shipping, a tiny device that plugs into any HDMI TV or monitor and turns it into a fully-functioning computer. This low-power PC ships with Windows 8.1 or Ubuntu 14.04...
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Aura from Entroware Is a Mini-PC Beast That Ships with Ubuntu MATE 15.04
Aura from Entroware is new mini-PC powered by some very powerful hardware and shipping with either Ubuntu 15.04 or Ubuntu MATE 15.04.
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Blocks Modular Smartwatch-In-The-Making Will Run On Android
U.K. hardware startup Blocks Wearables, which is in the process of building a modular smartwatch — shown off in concept-form in this teaser video last fall, and originally inspired by Google’s Project...
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Razer adds Android and position tracking support to its open VR platformRazer and a small group of other companies have been trying to standardize how VR headsets work, and today the standard is...
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CompuLab's Fitlet Is A Very Tiny, Fanless, Linux PC With AMD A10 Micro
CompuLab, the manufacturer of the Fitlet based in Israel, describes their new line-up as, "a fanless mini PC with high performance, excellent graphics, up to 4 LAN ports and 5 year warranty. filtet is...
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Proteus from Entroware Is a Powerful Gaming Laptop Running Ubuntu and Ubuntu...
Entroware is a UK-based company that specialized in selling hardware powered only by Linux operating systems. Proteus is the top-of-the-line laptop from Entroware, and it comes with either Ubuntu...
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96boards goes enterprise
96boards goes enterprise?96boards is an idea from Linaro to produce some 32 and 64-bit ARM boards. So far there were two boards released in “consumer” format and few more announced of rumoured. The...
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BeagleCore Open Source Internet Of Things Development Board (video)
BeagleCore is a new Internet of Things development board that has been created to be 100 percent open source and provide an easy way for makers, developers and hobbyists to have access to all all the...
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Long live ROS: Why the robotics revolution is being driven by open source...
The 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) wrapped up last month, and while teams from Korea and the U.S. took away $3.5M in prize money, the real winner was the open source robotics movement. Of the 23...
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HP 455 G3 Ubuntu laptop - Linux on a budget
Canonical’s Ubuntu can be run on just about any x86 machine with a recent and compatible BIOS so who buys pre-loaded machines? HP clearly thinks there is a market for such a thing and recently...
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Local companies use open-source hardwareYou probably know the Linux penguin, that cuddly mascot of open-source software, but do you know the mascot of open-source hardware?Why open hardware is...
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Logic Supply's New Thin Client Computers to Offer Fanless Virtualization...
Logic Supply, a hardware company known for being on the leading edge of technology with embedded and industrial computers powered by Linux kernel-based operating systems, such as Ubuntu, has announced...
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