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How to Download and Build Your Own House

SHOW NOTES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=19219 You wouldn't download a house, would you? Of course you would! And now with the Open Buildin
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Baidu Joins Hands with JD to Set up Innovative Hardware Open Platform

Baidu Joins Hands with JD to Set up Innovative Hardware Open Platform | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Searching giant Baidu and leading online retailer JD signed a strategic agreement today to jointly launch an innovative hardware open platform (source in Chinese).

 
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Open Hardware Platforms Promise Faster, Lower-Cost and Successful Designs | RTC Magazine

Open Hardware Platforms Promise Faster, Lower-Cost and Successful Designs | RTC Magazine | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

The availability of advanced embedded CPUs on ready-made platforms along with software and full sets of design documents sets the stage for accelerating time-to-market and lowering costs for a wide variety of design projects.

 
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Samsung's "Voice of the Body" is an open hardware and software platform for personal health monitoring

Samsung's "Voice of the Body" is an open hardware and software platform for personal health monitoring | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

What if your body had a voice? That was the premise that was asked, and would anchor the presentation Samsung provided in San Francisco on Wednesday. The context was mean to dovetail on today’s wearable devices and where Samsung wants to focus development.

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The next big thing in hardware: Commoditizing production and distribution platforms

The next big thing in hardware: Commoditizing production and distribution platforms | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
Building hardware is getting easier, but it’s still not easy enough. The minutiae of bringing a prototype to a real product is still to specialized. We need a platform that can do it at scale.
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Motorola Announces “Project Ara,” a modular phone hardware platform

Motorola Announces “Project Ara,” a modular phone hardware platform | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it

Motorola has announced a free, open hardware platform for smartphones called "Project Ara." The goal is to create a modular smartphone that would allow users to swap hardware components at will. Motorola says it wants to "do for hardware what the Android platform has done for software: create a vibrant third-party developer ecosystem, lower the barriers to entry, increase the pace of innovation, and substantially compress development timelines."

Tobias Willems's curator insight, April 7, 2014 8:22 AM

It is really interresting if you are interrested in smartphones and when that is your thing it is really nice to read this article. Becasue open source platforms are very rare for smartphones.