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How Open Source Hardware applies to electronics and the Open Source Community Currently, there are two kinds of licenses for open source hardware: copyleft and permissive. When the idea of open source hardware came about, it was going to cover electronic devices and mechanical designs but has spread to cover much more than just that.

SOLAR SPLASH is the World Championship of intercollegiate Solar/Electric boating. Its official name is “an international intercollegiate solar/electric boat regatta,” and it takes place over five days.

NOA Labs is a turnkey solution company for hardware product development. That is not limited only to DFM (Design for Manufacturing) and MP (Mass Production). Our mission is to make hardware innovation accessible to everyone with a bright and clear idea. It is meant to be as simple as how Uber brings you from A … Leggi tutto

Some of the world’s rarest cars are on display in Tennessee.

Alan Kay recently gave his 1970s Xerox Alto to Y Combinator, and I’m helping with the restoration of this legendary system. The Alto was the first computer designed around a graphical user interface, and it introduced both Ethernet and the laser printer to the world. The laser printer was invented at Xerox by Gary Starkweather, and … Leggi tutto

Back before all-digital music, back before the Digital Compact Cassette, back before even the Digital Audio Tape existed, there was a strange audio device that briefly captured the imagination of Hi-Fi freaks across the world. The Elcaset, as it was called, was an enlarged cassette that started in Japan, wove its hidden, spinning spools around … Leggi tutto

Apple announced a new file system that will make its way into all of its OS variants (macOS, tvOS, iOS, watchOS) in the coming years

From Linus Torvalds <> Date Sun, 26 Jun 2016 18:27:43 -0700 Subject Linux 4.7-rc5 Another week, another -rc. Hmm. I think things are calming down, although with almost two thirds of the commits coming in since Friday morning, it doesn’t feel that way – my Fridays end up feeling very busy. But looking at the … Leggi tutto

At the current rate of language feature releases (roughly every 18 months), that means we would likely see Python 4.0 some time in 2023, rather than seeing Python 3.10.

Coconut, a newly developed open source dialect of Python, provides new syntax for using features found in functional languages like Haskell and Scala. Programs written in Coconut compile directly to vanilla Python, so they can be run on whatever Python interpreter is already in use.

Today, June 16, 2016, the Qt Company was proud to announce the final release and general availability of the long-anticipated Qt 5.7 GUI (Graphical User Interface) toolkit for all supported platforms.

The Qt Company announced that it will soon ship an automotive stack for developing in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) and instrument cluster GUIs. The Qt Automotive Suite combines a new Application Manager and Qt IVI API library with a customized version of Qt Device Creation and hooks to the Qt Creator IDE. There’s also a modified version … Leggi tutto

According to the appended shortlog, Linux kernel 4.1.26 LTS adds great improvements to the MIPS, ARM64 (AArch64), ARM, PowerPC (PPC), and x86 hardware architectures, numerous updated drivers, in particular for things like ACPI, CPUIdle, Crypto, GPU, hwmon, IRQ Chip, MCB, MFD, MMC, MTD, networking (Atheros ath10k, ath5k, and ath9k, Realtek wireless drivers), PCI, PINCTRL, SCSI, … Leggi tutto

Today, June 7, 2016, the Samba development team has announced the immediate availability for download of the fourth maintenance release in the Samba 4.4 series.  

eInfochips and Arrow are prepping an open-spec 96Boards CE Extended form-factor SBC with a Snapdragon 600, plus WiFi-ac, BT, GbE, GPS, SATA, and MIPI-CSI.

On the data analytics front, profound change is in the air, and open source tools are leading many of the changes. Sure, you are probably familiar with some of the open source stars in this space, such as Hadoop and Apache Spark, but there is now a strong need for new tools that can holistically … Leggi tutto

If you want to run a clone of Microsoft Windows to escape the drama of upgrading to Windows 10, try ReactOS — but do not expect it to be a fully functional replacement any time soon.

Open source software is usually free of cost. So how do open source developers and companies make money? The Freemium Model The VAR Approach: Redistributing Open Source Code Selling Support Seeking Donations Building a Foundation

Lithium-ion batteries currently reign supreme in their ability to hold a large amount of energy per weight, though they have rather complex charging requirements. Utilizing gold nanowires, a battery was created by researchers at UC Irvine that was able to reach 200,000 discharge cycles with a 94-96% charge storage efficiency. This is unprecedented with lithium-ion … Leggi tutto

Two exciting discoveries were made in the field of nanotechnology by universities on two different continents, each by research teams specializing in different scientific disciplines.

OwnCloud was founded by Frank Karlitschek in 2010, a KDE developer who created many other open source projects. In 2012, he co-founded ownCloud Inc. with Markus Rex. But in April of this year, everything fell apart. Karlitschek announced that he was leaving ownCloud Inc. He was not happy with the balance between the interests of … Leggi tutto

ownCloud Inc., an open-source Dropbox replacement, shut down its U.S. operations. Meanwhile, its founder forked the code to start a new company.

New study shows Samsung’s MST tech is not a hit, Google Wallet more popular than Android Pay.

A deep dive into Internet infrastructure, plus a rare visit to a subsea cable landing site. Table of Contents The secret world of cable landing sites Armoured submarine cables Fixing cables at sea QAM, DWDM, QPSK… The cable guise Testing submarine cables The power of nightmares Next stop: Data centre A change in the data tide … Leggi tutto

According to Trevor Thomkins (The Ohio State University), the team decided to convert its Camaro into a performance plug-in hybrid after conducting market research in several regions around Columbus, Ohio. That meant ripping out the 3.6L V6 and replacing it with a 160hp (119kW) 2.0L, four-cylinder engine that runs on E85 gasoline, coupled to a … Leggi tutto

ServersCheck is a modular, scalable & affordable Enterprise Internet of Things or Intranet of Things (IoT) solution that enables you to monitor, report, alert & control your data centers, server rooms, micro dc, equipment rooms, …. The IoT solution includes following product ranges: Sensorgateway (base units) > Wired & wireless sensors > Infrastructure Monitoring Platform … Leggi tutto

This is the last article in a four-part series on the current state of 3D printing. In the first part, I gave an overall introduction to differences in 3D printing since I wrote my original articles on 3D printing three years ago. The second piece focused on advances in 3D printing hardware, and the third … Leggi tutto

Calibre 2.58 appears to be a small bug fix release that finally brings compatibility with the latest Qt 5.x technologies (Qt 5.5 or later) on the Ubuntu Linux operating systems. This means that, if you use Calibre on Ubuntu, you should notice that the context menu of the Book List feature won’t flicker anymore. Among … Leggi tutto

ARM announced a 10nm Cortex-A73 architecture with 30 percent better sustained performance and efficiency than the Cortex-A72, plus a 32-shader Mali-G71 GPU. ARM unveiled a follow-on to the high-end Cortex-A72 mobile architecture, which was announced in Feb. 2015, and also unveiled a high-end Mali-G71 GPU to work with it (see farther below). The Cortex-A73 supports … Leggi tutto

We’re just about at the end of the two week merge cycle for the Linux 4.7 kernel and many of the subsystem maintainers have sent Linus Torvalds their git pull requests.

Before there’s a 64bit distro (raspbian or otherwise), there needs to be a 64 bit kernel. Eben said the CPU core was picked because it’s a great 32 bit processor, it just happens to also work in 64bit mode. Whether it’s worth the engineering effort to switch to 64 bits remains to be seen. However, … Leggi tutto

Sono disponibili le nuove schede HiFiBerry Dac+ e Digi+. E’ ora possibile realizzare sistemi audio ad alta definizione di qualita’ audiophile, con le schede Raspberry Pi. La qualita’ audio e’ eccezionale, la Dac+ monta DAC Burr Brown

From: Paul Smith Subject: GNU Make 4.2 released! Date: Sun, 22 May 2016 09:58:52 -0400     GNU make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and     other non-source files of a program from the program’s source files.     You can learn more at: http://www.gnu.org/software/make/ The next stable release of GNU make, 4.2, is available … Leggi tutto

New from Sysdig, Falco alerts you to unwanted behaviors, not just in Docker apps, but throughout the system

The 100 x 60mm NanoPC-T3 is essentially a NanoPC-T2 with a faster processor and a 2GB RAM option in addition to the standard 1GB. The SBC is further equipped with 8GB of eMMC and an SD slot. You also get GbE, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, four USB host ports, and a micro-USB client port. Media ports … Leggi tutto

The open source file sharing ecosystem accommodates a large variety of projects, each supplying their own solution, and each with a different approach. There are a lot of reasons to choose an open source solution rather than commercial solutions like Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud, or OneDrive.

BQ Aquaris M10 runs Ubuntu 15.04. (OTA 10.1) The hardware is powerful enough to run Ubuntu very well. Ubuntu Touch is a gesture-based operating system; there are no physical or virtual buttons.

In short, there are two companies calling themselves “Arduino” at the moment. One, Arduino LLC was founded by [Massimo Banzi], [David Cuartielles], [David Mellis], [Tom Igoe] and [Gianluca Martino] in 2009, runs the website arduino.cc, and has been directing and releasing the code that makes it all work. Most of these folks had been working … Leggi tutto

Arduino Srl’s new “Arduino Industrial 101” SBC includes Arduino circuitry and I/O, along with a soldered-on WiFi module that runs Linino Linux.

ZFS for Linux is also available on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS