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Short for “Solar-Powered Data Acquistion,” SADAQ offers Arduino-compatible boards with Lego-like plug-in modules.  

    https://pinocc.io/ Mesh networked, web-connected. Field Scouts talk to each other using a mesh network (called a Troop), using an extremely low-power radio. This makes them 14 times more efficient than standard WiFi devices. Slap a WiFi backpack on a Scout to make it the Lead Scout, and connect your entire Troop to the web! … Leggi tutto

This company offers a line of programmable modules and kits for connecting devices to the cloud and the Internet of Things. Flyport is Cloud-ready Programmable modules with embedded connectivity for IoT and M2M applications. Choose between Wi-Fi, GPRS and Ethernet Save Time and Money Our free IDE reduces by 6 months the development time of … Leggi tutto

Local Motors was approached by Joe Speed (IBM’s IoT Leader, now Director IoT at The Linux Foundation) to collaborate on creating an open source connected Rally Fighter with IBM and Intel that was showcased at the IBM Impact Conference in Las Vegas from April 27 – May 1.  

Node-RED is a tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways.  

M2MLabs Mainspring is an open source application framework for building machine to machine (M2M) applications such as remote monitoring, fleet management or smart grid.  

Kinoma’s open source software platform is optimized for connected, high-performance consumer electronics and Internet of Things (IoT) products. Build rich consumer experiences that orchestrate devices, their mobile companion apps, and cloud services.

This portal is where you can learn about the technologies developed at Eclipse to make Internet of Things (IoT) development simpler. Our technologies aim at establishing an open IoT/M2M platform to be used by anyone. iot.eclipse.org

Take control of things Your life and your house went from one computer to an Internet of things. From tablets to lightbulbs, from sensors to media boxes, everybody gets their own Internet. Today, you have to fight your things. They don’t talk to each other, the apps don’t work, it’s a tower of babel. Our … Leggi tutto

L’evoluzione delle schede ARM procede e compaiono prodotti sempre più interessanti, come ODROID XU3 che è un computer vero e proprio in miniatura ed a consumi bassi: CPU Exynos5422 Cortex™-A15 2.0Ghz quad core della Samsung, che attualmente è leader nella produzione ARM. Osserviamo la presenza di iNAND da 16 a 64 GB, 2GB RAM e … Leggi tutto

A non-profit company is developing an open source, 64-bit “lowRISC” SoC that will enable fully open hardware, “from the CPU core to the development board.” University of Cambridge spinoff “lowRISC” is a not-for-profit company with a goal of making a completely open computing eco-system, including the instruction set architecture (ISA), processor silicon, and development boards. … Leggi tutto

How can understanding Linux enhance a career? This question is interesting because there are two drastically different answers. The first is the obvious answer that you can find through websites and studies everywhere, but the second is a little more subtle. And a lot more awesome.

The federal government is the single largest purchaser of code in the world. So why is this code—taxpayer-funded and integral to the day-to-day working of our democracy—so often hidden from public view? There are two sides to answering that question: Why does the government so often build on closed platforms, and once built, why isn’t … Leggi tutto

It’s certainly not news. We’ve talked before about how learning OpenStack is a great way to kickstart an IT career. But just how valuable is it? And if you want to make the transition from doing traditional IT infrastructure administration to becoming a cloud architect, how do you get there?  

Nicholas Rubin, a 16-year-old programmer from Seattle, has created a browser add-on that makes it incredibly easy to see the influence of money in US politics. Rubin calls the add-on Greenhouse, and it does something so brilliantly simple that once you use it you’ll wonder why news sites didn’t think of this themselves. Greenhouse pulls in … Leggi tutto

Samsung has officially announced its first metal phone in a very long time: the Samsung Galaxy Alpha. Normally, Samsung goes all-out in the specs department and puts all the pieces in a plastic case—but the Galaxy Alpha is all about design over specs. Specs at a glance: Samsung Galaxy Alpha Screen 1280×720 4.7″ (312 PPI) AMOLED OS … Leggi tutto

From performance issues at hosting provider Liquid Web to outages at eBay and LastPass, large networks and websites suffered a series of disruptions and outages on Tuesday. Some Internet engineers are blaming the disruptions on a novel technical issue that impacts older Internet routers. At the heart of the issue, the growth of routable networks on … Leggi tutto

Amazon just announced its new Local Register service, a mobile card reader and app that allows merchants to swipe cards and take payments without a traditional card reader. The service is akin to those from Square and PayPal, which both use a physical card reader that plugs into a phone or tablet’s headphone jack and … Leggi tutto

There is something magical about seeing 1,000 robots move when humans are not operating any of them. And in a new study published in Science, researchers have created just that. This swarm of 1,000 robots can assemble themselves into complex shapes without the need for a central brain or a human controller.  

Lenovo posted its first-quarter financial results last night […], and overall the news was good. Revenue was up 11 percent compared to the same quarter last year, and profit after operating expenses was up to $283 million from $202 million. These aren’t huge numbers if you’re used to looking at results from, say, Apple or … Leggi tutto

Cooking Hacks has released new industrial protocol modules and API that allow sensor information from industrial devices to connect to the Cloud. The new modules support the most widely used industrial communication network protocols such as RS-485, RS-232, CAN Bus, and Modbus, used for process or industrial automation, building automation, military and automobile applications, for … Leggi tutto

If you use your tablet as a cookbook, then Williams-Sonoma’s Smart Tools are going to make your life a lot easier. This new line features products designed to let you use your tablet in the the kitchen more easily while offering a bit of protection from sticky fingers and increasing your ability to fully utilize … Leggi tutto

ARMv8-A architecture enablement to accelerate with silicon and software availability [Cambridge, UK; 2 July 2014] Following the recent announcement of the Android™ L Developer Preview, Linaro, the collaborative engineering organization developing open source software for the ARM® architecture, today announced that a build of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) to the ARMv8-A architecture has been made … Leggi tutto

Several new ARM devices will be supported by the in-development Linux 3.17 kernel while some less-than-optimally-supported ARM hardware is also getting stripped from the mainline kernel tree.

It has been a full seven months since AMD released detailed information about its Opteron A1100 server CPU, and twenty two months since announcement. Today, at the Hot Chips conference in Cupertino, CA, AMD revealed the final pieces about its ARM powered server strategy headlining the A1100.

Timelapse & Edit by Kirill Neiezhmakov music: Morcheeba – World Looking In (Que & DJ Fenner Remix) This timelapse was shot in May 2014 when I came on ceremony of award in film festival “Finisterra 2014” (with my “Moscow 2014 Hyperlapse” in category “Best Timelapse” ). It was in Sesimbra. Also I visited capital of … Leggi tutto

Governments are struggling to understand bitcoin. Understanding history might help them better appreciate the Copernican revolution in money.  

The purpose of this document is to help a reader to get started with Computer Vision library OpenCV on Linux system. OpencCV is a multi-platform library, but this article will be focused only on OpenCV using Linux operating system ( although, just the installation of the OpenCV library and video camera is platform-specific, all examples … Leggi tutto

Still waiting for the truly great, truly beautiful, truly portable Chromebook Basic Specs Thickness .65 inches Weight 3.09 pounds Operating system Chrome OS Screen size (diagonal) 13.3 inches CPU brand Samsung CPU family Exynos 5 Octa

The first Chromebook with Nvidia’s Tegra K1 processor promises to outgun and outlast the competition Acer ha annunciato l’Acer Chromebook 13, un Chromebook da 13,3 pollici basato su un SoC NVIDIA Tegra K1 (4+1 core, ARM A15). È anche il primo dell’azienda di questa dimensione, e tra i primi che saranno portati anche sul mercato … Leggi tutto

In today’s Android roundup: LibreOffice might eventually be released for Android. Plus: Android-x86 4.4 KitKat for PCs, and a screenshot tour of Android-x86 4.4 KitKat

The latest innovation is the SPARC M7, which was announced this week and is set to ship in 2015. In an audio press conference, John Fowler, Executive Vice-President of Systems at Oracle detailed some of the innovation that the M7 will bring to the market. Fowler noted that the M7 processor will be the fifth … Leggi tutto

AMD has spilled the beans on its server roadmap for 2014, including details of its first ARM-based Opteron chip codenamed Seattle, along with new x86 parts codenamed Warsaw and Berlin, the latter of which will be the first to feature uniform memory access across CPU and GPU cores. Seattle is set to sample to system … Leggi tutto

Primary: Wandboard (all models/revisions) Utilite (all models) Cubox-i (all models) Hummingboard (all models) RIoTBoard BeagleBone Black Tegra K1 Jetson CubieBoard (all models) Banana Pi Trimslice PandaBoard (all models) Calxeda Highbank/Midway VExpress (qemu) Secondary: BeagleBone White Beagle xM Novena UDOO AC100 Qualcomm (IFC6410, DragonBoard) Various Marvell devices (Mirabox, AX3, CuBox) Various Exynos devices Other AllWinner devices … Leggi tutto

Toulouse, France’s fourth largest city, has saved 1 million euro by migrating all its desktops to LibreOffice.

In today’s open source roundup: Canonical releases an update to Ubuntu 14.04. Plus: The NY Times bashes open source for not making enough money, and a review of Deepin 2014

The recently released open source ownCloud 7 Community Edition introduces an innovative way to share files securely between private clouds, as well as interface enhancements and better ways to work with Microsoft Word documents.

E’ annunciata la scheda Arduino Tre. Il progetto vuole utilizzare una scheda ARM con  Linux unita ad un microcontroller AVR. Quindi esce dal mondo Arduino per entrare in quello delle schede ARM. Questo diventa un grande problema. Infatti, come già scritto,  una scheda ARM, da utilizzare per sviluppare applicazioni, ha dei requisiti minimi molto vincolanti. … Leggi tutto

EZcontrol.IT è un progetto commerciale di schede e framewirk  per la domotica a complemento delle schede Arduino.

Gli amministratori di CED hanno il problema di poter capire velocemente lo stato di un server. Non è ovviamente possibile collegare un monitor ad ogni host, e i KVM sono molto costosi e problematici da gestire, soprattutto in relazione alle diverse risoluzioni delle schede video. Sarebbe molto utile un sistema compatto, economico e di facile … Leggi tutto

Non ci non novità in ambito schede ARM, computer completo, ad alimentazione unica, in breve 5V, e cosumi rispetto agli usuali computer, che sono i concorrenti naturali. Allo stato dell’arte ancora troviamo l’Allwinner ARM due core ad 1GHz. Riteniamo indisspensabili almeno 1GB RAM, un NIC preferibilmente ad 1Gb e la possibilità di collegare un disco … Leggi tutto

Ricordiamo il numero di luglio della divertente rivista MagPi.  

Open Source Portals in Java EXO Platform Liferay Jakarta Pluto Jakarta JetSpeed oPortal uPortal Gluecode Portal Foundation Server™ (PFS) Gridsphere jPortlet jPorta MyPersonalizer basicPortal CMS (TM) Stringbeans BnPortal Jamecs PortletBridge OpenPortal Kosmos Light Portal JBoss Portal iPoint Portal Lutece Entando  

How to set up a highly available Apache cluster using Heartbeat  

GCC 4.9.1 is a bug-fix release from the GCC 4.9 branch containing important fixes for regressions and serious bugs in GCC 4.9.0 with more than 88 bugs fixed since the previous release. In addition to that, GCC 4.9.1 release supports OpenMP 4.0 also in Fortran, rather than just in C and C++.

OpenWRT è la distribuzione Linux router-oriented, installabile in router MIPS-based, schede Internet of Things (IoT) e dispositivi come  Arduino Yún Utilizza il kernel 3.10, si apre ad IPv6, anche come dispositivo di tunnel IPv4 – IPv6…    

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The Odroid project launched an “Odroid-XU3″ open source SBC based on Samsung’s HMP-ready Exynos5422, which mixes four Cortex-A15 and four Cortex-A7 cores. Processor — Samsung Exynos5422 Octa SoC: CPUs — 4x ARM Cortex-A15 cores @ 2.0GHz + 4x Cortex-A7 cores @ 1.4GHz GPU — Mali-T628 MP6 (OpenGL ES 3.0 / 2.0 / 1.1 and OpenCL … Leggi tutto

AMB-IH61T3 (Mini-ITX)  Intel H61 with CoreTM i7/ i5/ i3 Mini-ITX Motherboard, DDR3-1333/1066 SDRAM, 2 x VGA, 2 x GbE LAN, 10 x COM, 8 x USB, 1 x PCI-E x16, 1 x Mini PCIe