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IO Rodeo Inc. | Smart lab technology. Full documentation of the colorimeter project is located on our documentation site at Getting started with the educational colorimeter kit. Arduino - HomePage. MyOpenRouter : The Premier Online Community for NETGEAR's WNR3500L & WGR614L Open Source Router - DD-WRT, OpenWRT, & Tomato Firmware. Open Source Hardware Initiative. As both an electrical engineer and professional software developer, I'd like to start an open source hardware movement similar to the open source software movement that has currently been happening.

I've seen ideas similar to this from other people before, although not well thought out nor articulated correctly, and definitely not the same thoughts I have about the subject. This (somewhat long) post is a summary of my ideas, hoping to get some feedback from other people. Open source software has been around for awhile. We've all seen it: Linux is the biggest example. Why does open source software exist? Open source hardware obviously has different requirements. Many people believe that open source hardware has to be all about integrated circuits (IC's) on chips. Now that the whole IC issue is out of the way, back to the PCB router.

The users can get a desktop PCB router by either 1) Downloading open source plans for the router and building it himself. Sorry for writing a huge essay here. Village Telco » Mesh Potato. Mesh Potato Click for larger view The Mesh Potato is a device for providing low-cost telephony and Internet in areas where alternative access either doesn’t exist or is too expensive. It is a marriage of a low-cost wireless access point (AP) capable of running a mesh networking protocol with an Analog Telephony Adapter (ATA).Here is the story of how the idea of the Mesh Potato came about.

The first prototypes of the Mesh Potato were built in June of 2009, almost exactly a year after the Mesh Potato concept was conceived of. In late 2009, we launched a “beta” test of about 150 Mesh Potatoes in about 20 different countries. The production Mesh Potato can be seen at the right. The Mesh Potato went on sale in September 2010 and can be ordered through the online store of this website.

Mesh Potato Features Specifications Overview Atheros AR2317 system on a Chip (SoC)Silicon labs FXS port chipsetMIPS 4k processor 180 MHzOne 10/100Mbit LAN port8 MByte Serial Flash EEPROM16 MByte RAM Wireless LAN. UPGRADE INDUSTRIES. Arducopter - Arduino-based autopilot for mulitrotor craft, from quadcopters to traditional helis. The DIY Drones development team is proud to bring you the ultimate open source quadcopter and helicopter UAV!

ArduCopter's autopilot is based on APM 2, the most sophisticated IMU-based open source autopilot on the market. It provides full UAV functionality, with scripted waypoints, Ground Station and more. Advanced GCS Waypoints! See the Wiki manual linked above for full details and instructions. Sample video: GPS position and altitude hold See some other ArduCopter videos here! Order ArduCopter kits and parts here or buy them ready-to-fly here. ArduCopter Platform Feature List. Main Page. Bone. Explore the high-performance, low-power world with the tiny, affordable, open-source Beagles. Putting Android, Ubuntu and other Linux flavors at your fingertips, the Beagle family revs as high as 1GHz with flexible peripheral interfaces and a proven ecosystem of feature-rich "Cape" plug-in boards.

BeagleBone Black The benchmark for open hardware Linux computers. Get the workhorse 1GHz AM335x ARM® Cortex-A8 processor, expanded peripherals, low power consumption and open source software compatibility. Learn more » What can these boards do? The Beagles are tiny open-hardware (you could make one yourself), open-software computers that plug into whatever you have around the house. BeagleBone This previous generation Beagle is powered by a 720MHz ARM Cortex-A8 processor and includes power management, microSD card with Linux, built-in FTDI-based serial / JTAG and on-chip Ethernet. Learn more » Product Comparison Table Cool Projects More Projects » Featured Capes & Accessories. Camera 2.0. 3/15/12 - The FCam API is now available on the Nokia N9 Linux-based smartphone. See below for details. Marc Levoy has retired from Stanford University to lead a team at Google.

This project is no longer active, and the Stanford Frankencamera is not available for purchase. However, the FCam API is available on cell phones and tablets that run Android version "L" (Lollipop), as the Camera2 API (Application Programming Interface) and HAL v3 (Hardware Abstraction Layer) for the cameras on these devices. See also this presentation by former Stanford PhD student Eddy Talvala at Google I/O 2014, or this summary by Android Police. Apple offers a similar API in iOS. Elphel, Inc. | Imaging solutions with Free software and open hardware. Yeeloong Notebook_Notebook_江苏中科梦兰电子科技有限公司.