Friday was the 2016 Open Hardware Summit, a yearly gathering of people who believe in the power of open design. The use of the term “summit” rather than “conference” is telling. This gathering brings together a critical mass of people running hardware companies that adhere to the ideal of “open”, but this isn’t at the exclusion…
via The People, Talks, and Swag of Open Hardware Summit — Hackaday
An annotated mRISCV die imageI don’t know about you, but the idea of an Arduino-class microprocessor board which uses completely open silicon is a pretty attractive prospect to us. That’s exactly [onchipUIS]’s stated goal. They’re part of a research group at the Universidad Industrial de Santander and have designed and taped out a Cortex M0…
via A Completely Open Microcontroller — Hackaday
Not only have [onchipUIS] successfully bonded their chip, but they’ve done so using a chip on board process where the die is directly bonded to a PCB. They used OSHPark boards and described the process on Twitter.
@ico_TC Slower gif. Enough to see the bus connection to RAM and a flip-flop. #tech @SSCSociety @ieeecassociety #HappyOctober #MañanaVotoSí pic.twitter.com/9EopcditiQ
— onchip (@onchipUIS) October 1, 2016
Charles McClelland created a Wi-Fi Connected Teensy:
The basic idea is that this board will connect to GPS, obtain a GPS fix and report its location to Ubidots.
Ubidots can then display this information in a number of ways including showing the location and the number of times the sensor had been moved that day
The hardware design files and firmware source code are shared on GitHub:
chipmc/Teensy-Data-Logger/
Today at the Open Hardware Summit in Portland, Alicia Gibb and Michael Weinberg of the Open Source Hardware Association (OSHWA) launched the Open Source Hardware Certification program. It’s live, and you can certify your own hardware as Open Hardware right now. What Is Open Source Hardware? Open Source Hardware can’t be defined without first discussing […]
via Certification For Open Source Hardware Announced — Hackaday
You do not know how to make a PCB unless you can make your own parts. [Jan] knows this, but like everyone else he checked out the usual online sources for a footprint for an SD card socket before making his own. It turns out, this SD card socket bought from an online marketplace was…
The 2016 Hackaday SuperConference is the ultimate hardware con. It will take place on November 5+6, 2016 in Pasadena, California. SuperCon is about hardware creation — everything at this conference is geared toward sharing the knowledge, excitement, experience, and motivations that go into building cutting edge electronics. We offer you 48 hours packed with 21…
via Everything You’ll Find at the SuperConference — Hackaday
Portland Science Hack Day at XOXO Outpost kicks off tonight after the Open Hardware Summit! Opening Lightning Talks start at 7:15 pm:
Here are my slides on Open Source Hardware and Science [PDF]:
Slides are also shared on SlideShare
Kevin Rye recreated this replica from a favorite movie:
The Fifth Element is one of my all-time favorite movies. I watched it again the other day and as soon as I saw Zorg’s Door bomb, I said to myself, “I’m so building that!”
Here it is in action:
A Raspberry Pi Zero is down to a price and size where it’s just begging to be integrated into your projects. Unless, that is, if your project involves a lot of 5 V equipment. Then it’s just begging to be fried. [David Brown] solved this problem by breaking out pins with level converters. He used…
via 3.3V Is Not Enough for This Raspberry Pi Zero — Hackaday
Please join us tomorrow night on Open Hardware Summit eve for a delightful mix of #BringAHack and open house!
Refreshments will be served. No problem if you won’t be able to bring a “hack”. There will still be plenty of interesting things to experience!
OSH Park 