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Hackaday: The Future Travels Of The Travelling Hackerbox
For the past year, I’ve been organizing a very special project over on hackaday.io. It’s the Travelling Hacker Box, a box full of random electronics junk, sibling to the The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk, and a project that has already traveled more than 25,000 miles. Earlier this month, I said the Hackerbox…
via The Future Travels Of The Travelling Hackerbox — Hackaday
Olimex: ESP32-WROOM-32 WiFi/Bluetooth module is in stock
ESP32-WROOM-32 modules are in stock now! Again these are from the very first lot and with limited supply. To give chances to more developers to try them we will not allow more than 3 modules per order. This module is good only if you develop your own board. For these who are not good with […]
via ESP32-WROOM-32 WiFi/Bluetooth module is in stock! — olimex
OpenFixture Takes the Pain Out of Pogo Pins
Hackaday reports:
OpenFixture Takes the Pain Out of Pogo Pins
[Elliot] wrote in with his OpenFixture model for OpenSCAD. It’s awesome because it takes a small problem, that nonetheless could consume an entire day, and solves it neatly. And that problem is making jigs to test assembled electrical products: a PCB test fixture.
In the PCB design software, you simply note down the locations of the test points and feed these into the OpenSCAD model. [Elliot] shows you exactly how to do it using KiCAD. There are a few more parameters of the model that you can tweak to match your particulars, but you should have a DXF outline for a test jig in short order. Cut that out, assemble, and test.
OnChip Open Source RISC-V microcontroller at ORCONF 2016
ORCONF 2016 was held earlier this month in Bologna, Italy:
ORCONF is an open source digital design and embedded systems conference, covering areas of electronics from the transistor level up to Linux user space and beyond. Expect presentations and discussion on free and open source IP projects, implementations on FPGA and in silicon, verification, EDA tools, licensing and embedded software, to name a few.
Begun as the annual OpenRISC developers and users conference, it has become a broad open source digital design-oriented event and is supported by FOSSi – the Free and Open Source Silicon Foundation.
Elkim Roa spoke about OnChip, an Open Source silicon microcontroller, designed by his research group at UIS (Universidad Industrial de Santander):
Fully-tested 32-bit RISC-V microcontroller in 130nm
The slides are available as PDF on GitHub:
OnChipUIS has several repos on GitHub related to the project including:
mriscv: A 32-bit Microcontroller featuring a RISC-V core
The Spark Gap talks Open Hardware Summit
We’re big fans of podcasts about electronics and embedded systems like The Amp Hour, embedded.fm and The Spark Gap podcast. (Please let us know in the comments of other shows we should check out)
In the latest Spark Gap episode, Karl and Corey talk about their trip to Portland for the 2016 Open Hardware Summit:
The Spark Gap Podcast – Episode 49
Our favorite past episodes include the two-episode discussion of PCB design:
We also enjoyed when Karl and Corey were joined by James Lewis of Kemet Electronics to talk about capacitors.
Look What Showed Up For Bring-A-Hack
Hackaday was in Portland last weekend for the Open Hardware Summit. I did a brief recap earlier this week but this post has been on my mind the entire time. The night before the summit, OSH Park (the Purveyors of Perfect Purple PCBs which we all know and love) hosted a Bring-A-Hack at their headquarters. [Laen]…
via Look What Showed Up For Bring-A-Hack At OSH Park — Hackaday
Open Source Hardware month events
October is Open Source Hardware month! Join with one of these upcoming events:
Documentation Day San Francisco
Date: 10/18/2016 6:30pm
Details: David from IFTTT is away this month. Let’s meetup at the TechShop at the 2nd Floor Conference Room. More details: https://www.meetup.com/urbanagtech/events/234473382/
Venue: Tech Shop
Location: 926 Howard street, San Francisco, CA
Parts & Crafts and Public Lab Documentation Nights
Date: October 5, 12, 19, & 26, 6-8pm
Details: Parts & Crafts — a makerspace for kids and adults — will be working to document all their existing open hardware projects — including the One Lightsaber Per Child project — & invite the public to help, learn more, and use their space to document their own open hardware. Public Lab will be hosting “upgrade your DIY spectrometer” documentation events on the 12th and 19th.
Venue: Parts & Crafts/Somerville Tool Library
Location: 577 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA 02143
Event: Documentation Day Boulder
Date: 10/22/2016, 1-4pm
Details: Toni Klopfenstein and Alicia Gibb are hosting a Documentation Day at SparkFun Electronics. Get some photography tips and bring the project you want to open source the most!
Venue: SparkFun Electronics
Location: 6333 Dry Creek Parkway, Niwot CO, 80544
Documentation Day NYC
Date: 10/25/2016 5:30-9:00
Details: Michael Weinberg and Joel Murphy will be hosting a Documentation Day in New York. Details: shpws.me/MNb8
Venue: Fat Cat Fab Lab
Location: 224 W. 4th St., 2nd floor
Documentation Day Brazil at the Hardware Liberation Hackathon
Date: 10/29-31/2016
Details: e-hal.org.br/en
Venue: PUC-SP, Campus Conceição
Location:São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Documentation Day Berlin
Date: 10/29-30/2016
Details: Addie Wagenknecht will be hosting a Documentation Day in Berlin. Details to follow.
Venue: TBD
Location: TBD
Open Hardware Summit 2016: afternoon sessions
[see previous blog post for morning sessions]
Video recordings of Session 3 and Session 4 of Open Hardware Summit 2016 in Portland:
OSHWA certification
Alicia Gibb and Michael Weinberg
[Session 3: seek to 0 hr 16 min]
Note – the recording is missing these talks:
- Steve Hodges: micro:bit Open Source Physical Computing Platform for CS Education
- Dan Seal: Rise of Open Hardware in Education
- Sakshi Srivastava
Creating an open factory among factories
Eric Pan
[Session 4: starts at the beginning]
Space the Final Frontier of Open Hardware
Aaron Baker and Andrew Greenberg
[Session 4: seek to 0 hr 19 min]
Beyond microchips: infrastructure, norms and feedback for open classical instruments
David Perry
[Session 4: seek to 0 hr 35 min]
Open Source Hardware in our National Parks
Rianne Trujillo
[Session 4: seek to 0 hr 51 min]
Open and Good Enough Manufacturing Solutions
Luka Mustafa
[Session 4: seek to 1 hr 5 min]
Gallery of slides from the above talks:
Related post:
Open Hardware Summit 2016: morning sessions
Open Hardware Summit 2016: morning sessions
Video recordings of Session 1 and Session 2 of Open Hardware Summit 2016 in Portland:
Programming is Forgetting
Allison Parrish
“Embedis” dictionary server for embedded systems
Tom Moxon and David Turnbull
OpenMV: From Hack-A-Day Fail of the Week to Success
Kwabena Agyeman
Open vs. Collaborative: Lessons from Linux and Google
Jason Krinder
Caroline Sinders
Free/Libre/Open Source Marketing
Harris Kenny
[Part 1: seek to 2 hr 52 min of Session 1]
Open Source Hardware at Intel: Moving the Mountain
Tracey Erway
Designing an ecosystem to drive an open source hardware project
Shigeru Kobayashi and Genta Kondo
Bilal Ghalib
Open Source Hardware Medical Instrumentation
Ashwin Whitchurch
What’s up with My Grandma? Open Hardware and Motor Function
Justyna Ausareny
[seek to 1 hr 23 min] note: the talk is truncated
Gallery of slides from the above talks:
Related post:
OSH Park 