Last week I took the opportunity to visit Oxford’s Hackspace and see a talk by Javier Serrano of CERN. Serrano has been working together with Moorcrofts, an Oxford-based legal firm, on the latest version of CERN’s Open Hardware Licence (OHL). CERN’s systems have unique requirements in terms of scale, synchronisation and geographic distribution. As a … Read more
The BBC R&D labs have recently been busy working on a TV prototyping appliance called the egBox. The idea behind it is to create a minimum viable product of a HTML5-based TV as the base platform for experimenting with new features. The appliance uses HTML 5, the WebM video codec, runs services using Node.js, and … Read more
This week, Intel announced the Minnowboard, a small embedded development board akin to the RaspberryPi, BeagleBoard and similar devices. The point that grabbed my attention is that it’s being touted as an “open source computer”. The device is shipped running Ångström and is compatible with the Yocto project for building custom embedded Linux systems, but … Read more
Today Canonical announced the next step in their project to bring Ubuntu to the phone. A new potentially record-breaking IndieGoGo crowd-funding campaign has been launched for the “Ubuntu Edge” – a device which seeks to bring together all the latest developments in mobile technology into a limited-run consumer device… that will run Ubuntu, of course. … Read more
While researching projects for our upcoming event on Open Source Hardware I came across the amazing Open Source Ecology project. OSE features openly-licensed designs for tractors, generators, cultivators as part of its Global Village Construction Set – a set of 50 industrial and agricultural machines with which you can set up a create a small … Read more
You can’t do anything with software at the moment, Open Source or otherwise, without the word “cloud” being thrown about. If you’re looking at options for software you might want to use, it can be hard to see through the hype of this term, and understand what product you’re actually talking about. This article is … Read more
As 3D Printing starts to take off and hit the mainstream, the Open Source Hardware movement is also stepping up a gear. Open Source Hardware applies largely the same model of innovation to hardware that FOSS brings to software. With Open Source Hardware, designers openly license the digital artefacts needed to create objects – for … Read more