Who hasn’t worked on a project that went nowhere or got canceled? Sometimes the project deserves it because it was ill-conceived or poorly executed. Sometimes markets moved or there wasn’t really a ...
In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...
Today at the Open Hardware Summit at MIT, OSHWA, the Open Source Hardware Association has announced a huge revision to the Open Hardware certification process. The goal here is to design a better ...
Since its inception in November last year, Taiwan based HWTrek started out as a cross between a crowd-funding and a manufacturing advisory platform for hardware companies. But now, HWTrek is putting ...
Whether a device is a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, every piece of hardware Apple makes needs to go through several prototype and development stages. Here's what that looks like, and what Apple calls each ...
Snapchat is rumored to be working on a Google Glass-style competitor, and it's continuing its hiring spree to recruit more people to its project. Among the latest additions to Snapchat are two ...
OpenAI, not content with building large language models and art-generating AI, wants to get into hardware. That’s according The Information, which reported this week that storied former Apple product ...
Editor’s note: Matt Witheiler is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. You can follow him on his blog. In the past six years crowdfunding has become a popular, if not the most popular, form ...
Microsoft has teased that it's working on AI technology, with the heart and soul of Redmond's artificial intelligence powered by Intel's new Stratix 10 field programmable gate array (FPGA) chip.
*Basic #1: do not electrocute yourself with a homemade toaster that isn't even screwed together. https://certification.oshwa.org/basics.html OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE ...
Google is jumping into its next futuristic hardware project. This time it’s a modular smartphone dubbed Project Ara that can be customized by swapping out individual pieces, such as the battery and ...