Arduino! It’s a wonderful thing, this open source hardware, and it pops up around here quite often. You can’t get much better of an arduino primer – both what it is and where it came from – than this brilliant documentary.
Adafruit’s $US2,000 bounty for an open source Kinect driver hack was only offered up late last week and already someone has allegedly delivered, said Adafruit’s Phillip Torrone in an email to us just now. This was inevitable.
Google has announced that despite Wave’s demise as a Google App, its open source code will continue to be developed into a fully-functional application available to anyone with the desire to host it.
Who needs Texas Instruments? Not Matt Stack, creator of the Open SciCal. His home-made, 100 per cent open-source graphing calculator not only blows away the functionality of store-bought devices, but is the “ultimate status symbol among the nerdiest of the nerds”.
The other open-source platform that sprung up around the same time as Android isn’t doing so well. Vodafone’s two handsets, built by Samsung, failed on the market according to reports (and the fact that no one seems to know a soul who actually bought one), but now it’s thought that even the handset partners are reneging their interest in the platform.
The BookLiberator Project is kit of open-source hardware and software, designed to help you digitise your personal library without damaging your collection. It won’t spare you from having to turn each page, but it is some seriously clever design.
The protocol behind uTorrent, uTP, has been made open source by BitTorrent Inc, for developers to create BitTorrent clients and programs using the format. [TorrentFreak]
Anyone else feel the hysteria over the Facebook privacy concerns is pretty ridiculous? Wave an open-source violin in the face of the next posturing fool you see harping on about it. [xkcd]
