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BoardX: The Open Source Miniature Motherboard by Kevin Green. Hey there!

BoardX: The Open Source Miniature Motherboard by Kevin Green

Check out the new demonstration of how to get started using BoardX with the Arduino SDK in under 3 minutes! BoardX is a collection of electronic circuit boards that stack on top of one another to share resources, communicate, and extend the functionality of one another. This system is built on the motherboard that acts as both an electrical and structural foundation. Unlike similar products (but much like a familiar PC system), the motherboard does not come with a processor pre-installed. Processors come as simple, low cost add-on boards, which allows any processor - or multiple processors - to be used with the system. UPGRADE INDUSTRIES was founded out of necessity, because I couldn't keep waiting for a company to design the product I needed.

Let me take you back to a time when I was just an undergraduate engineering student, trying to make ends meet as the captain of one of Virginia Tech's lesser-known student design teams. BoardX works transparently with Arduino SDK! Systems : embedded electronic boards development. Reusing the Armadeus design.

systems : embedded electronic boards development

Our products are quite fullfilling your requirements but a feature is missing or the form factor is not the right one ? We can quickly adapt our boards based on your specification. This process ensures the best ROI and reduces the risks. By choosing our hardware plateform you will benefit of our intensive software work for the future. New releases, bug corrections and new features are continuously added while maintaining the compatibility with the previous releases. Do you need a specific design? Thanks to several years of experience in various research and development offices, we can create new electronic boards integrating DSP, processors and FPGA, specially designed for your needs. Electronic manufacturing Services If you do not wish to monitor the board production, we can take care of it for you. BeagleBoard.org - default.

Embedded board manufacturers and dealers. Difficult to choose between manufacturers of embedded system boards supporting Linux and other Free Software operating systems?

Embedded board manufacturers and dealers

There are so many of them now… To help you find the best hardware solution for your system, we are keeping a list of suppliers making attractive products. Here are the conditions to be on the list: Offer attractive and competitive productsAt least one products supported (at least partially) in the official versions of Free Software operating systems (Linux, eCos, NetBSD…). This is a rather strong requirement, but only such products bring a guarantee for long term community support, making it much easier to develop and maintain embedded systems. Companies and organizations are listed by alphabetical order, mentioning the country where their headquarters are. Main Page - ArmadeusWiki. Your Electronics Open Source. Open source hardware is the new Big thing! Hardware Hackers Create a Modular Motherboard. An ambitious group of hardware hackers have taken the fundamental building blocks of computing and turned them inside out in an attempt to make PCs significantly more efficient.

Hardware Hackers Create a Modular Motherboard

The group has created a motherboard prototype that uses separate modules, each of which has its own processor, memory and storage. Each square cell in this design serves as a mini-motherboard and network node; the cells can allocate power and decide to accept or reject incoming transmissions and programs independently. Together, they form a networked cluster with significantly greater power than the individual modules. The design, called the Illuminato X Machina, is vastly different from the separate processor,memory and storage components that govern computers today.

“We are taking everything that goes into motherboard now and chopping it up,” says David Ackley, associate professor of computer science at the University of New Mexico and one of the contributors to the project. Norair agrees. RepRap. RepRap is humanity's first general-purpose self-replicating manufacturing machine.

RepRap

RepRap takes the form of a free desktop 3D printer capable of printing plastic objects. Since many parts of RepRap are made from plastic and RepRap prints those parts, RepRap self-replicates by making a kit of itself - a kit that anyone can assemble given time and materials. It also means that - if you've got a RepRap - you can print lots of useful stuff, and you can print another RepRap for a friend... RepRap is about making self-replicating machines, and making them freely available for the benefit of everyone. We are using 3D printing to do this, but if you have other technologies that can copy themselves and that can be made freely available to all, then this is the place for you too.

Reprap.org is a community project, which means you are welcome to edit most pages on this site, or better yet, create new pages of your own. RepRap was voted the most significant 3D-printed object in 2017. Arduino - HomePage. , Zartronic : Votre source Arduino en France. Welcome. OpenCores. OpenSPARC T1 processor. Linux Fund: OGD1. Available for Grant Application and Purchase!

Linux Fund: OGD1

The Open Graphics Device v1 is an open hardware prototyping platform based on a fully programmable FPGA semiconductor. The OGD1 features dual DVI-I outputs and 100-pin IDC connector for exceptional video and I/O flexibility. The Open Graphics Project designed and maintains the OGD1, and all of its schematics are available under an open source license.

Linux Fund has build twenty-five OGD1's, ten of which will be given to developers who are committed to advancing the platform and twelve of which will be sold to cover the manufacturing costs. The remaining three boards will be kept for testing and warranty purposes. Developers: How to apply to receive an OGD1 The goal of this developer program is two-fold: To guarantee solid open source operating system driver support and to stimulate innovative uses of this unique computing platform. The full OGD1 specification and tools can be found at the Open Graphics home page.