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Through its Hackaday.com website, SupplyFrame is offeringThe Hackaday Prize, a hardware contest where the grand prize is an all-expense-paid trip to space on a carrier of your choice. The call for entries is now open. The prize is a recognition of the growing movement of hardware hackers who celebrate do-it-yourself, innovative, open hardware projects, said program director Kathy Astromoff in an interview with VentureBeat. 
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Check out a history timeline - start dates of Open Source Hardware projects since 1997
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Could this open source vehicle usher in a new era of DIY electric cars?
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Models can be created and modified with any 3-D editor, such as Blender or OpenSCAD. The model should be exported as an STL file. That is loaded into Cura and sliced to a toolpath. It may take a few tries to get all the settings right. The GCode is saved to disk and opened with Repetier Host, which sends it to the stage. When the platform reaches the welding gun, switch on the welder by plugging in cable leading to the switch (which is to be held pressed with a wire tie).
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Zach Smith thinks of 3D printers as creativity multipliers. And by giving people access to his source codes, he wants to ensure that more people have access to the technologies that are revolutionising the world (Can hardware be open-source?
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Help fund us to create the the first professional quality Open Source GPU and help Kickstart an Open Hardware revolution. The current aim is to finish the final few modes of operation and release our product as a complete, professional, open source hardware platform. We will provide a complete Verilog implementation of a 2D/3D graphics processor capable of OpenGL and D3D with a full test suite that anyone is free to use and improve upon. Our Ultimate stretch goal is to create a complete open source implementation of a modern day graphics accelerator.
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The term Open Source refers primarily to software development, as ‘the result of a collaborative effort of different people, following diverging personal or collective agendas when participating in this process’.1 The engagement in such procedure is not necessarily connected to a financial gain reward, but could also aspire to peer recognition and aesthetic pleasure or could derive from a particular sociopolitical belief. The advantages characterizing the open–source development structure are numerous and point towards a direction where the production of software is horizontal and the algorithm maintains its transparency, meaning that it is clean of any hidden features that promote external goals. Open–source software represents a GNU–license model of ownership and, distinguished for its originality, it has already influenced, not only the process of software development and its licensing structure, but also the design community that uses, modifies and re–distributes it
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The whale, the jungle, and the turtle. Soloman Hykes is hoping the whale metaphor for his company’s open source software project, Docker, doesn’t turn out to be a fail whale. Hykes and his 18-person company dotCloud are attempting to build a computer the size of the entire Internet, which is really an oversimplification of what the Docker project is attempting to do. Wired.com has the full story on the project, which aims "to foster a world where anyone can treat any pool of machines in much the same way Google treats its private data centers." Writer Cade Metz does a wonderful job of telling the story behind dotCloud and Docker, weaving together the whale on Hykes’ T-shirt, the jungle-like environment Hykes works in, and even the dotCloud turtle (yes, a real life turtle named Gordon). This is a great read if you’ve got some time for a longer piece
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For weeks we've been teasing you that something BIG was coming. This is it. Six months from now one hardware hacker will claim The Hackaday Prize and in doing so, secure the grand prize of a...
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Sure it's not made of metal nor did it convince Google to give its creators billions of dollars, but dammit if this isn't a cool hack. The folks at Spark.io,.. (Make a $3.2b product in a day. Heroku for hardware is here.
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Live Science: Scientists have built an open-source 3D metal printer that costs under $1,200, sharing their design and software with the maker community.
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Paul Beech presenting at Open Source Hardware Camp / Wuthering Bytes 2013. With thanks to Simon Cook at Embecosm for filming and editing.
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GigaOM: The Facebook-led Open Compute Project is set to vote on four new specifications that would make open source networking switches and OS software a reality in the near future.
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Ars conducts a Q&A with Massimo Banzi as Arduino's rise continues.Most of the technology world is familiar with open source software and the reasons why, in some eyes, it's more appealing than proprietary software.
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Free Open Source and Hardware Symposium (FOSHS '13) is aimed at bringing together industry, developers, educators, the community and any other interested parties to discuss open source, open hardware, open web and academic/industry partnerships.
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Billions of people and their many devices will be coming online in the next decade, and the industry is building out a huge physical infrastructure to support this growth. But we are doing so in a largely closed fashion. In this fireside chat, Frank Frankovsky will provide an update on the latest developments in the Open Compute Project, a consumer-led community that's pushing for more openness and a greater focus on scale, efficiency and sustainability. Moderated by: Jo Maitland - Research.
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Many Hackaday readers might remember the days of buying modchips from somewhat questionable sources.
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