Interest in open-source hardware (OSHW) has exploded beyond its early hobbyist adopters. Favoring design transparency over confidentiality, the OSHW movement lies at the core of some of the hottest ...

The world of custom mechanical keyboards is vibrant, with new designs emerging weekly. However, keyboards are just one way we interact with computers. Ploopy, an open-source hardware company, focuses ...

Since e-ink first hit the market a couple decades back, there’s always murmurs of “that’d be great as a second monitor”— but very, very few monitors have ever been made. When the commecial world is ...

Open-source tools and multi-project wafer (MPW) shuttles democratize chip design for low cost. Small circuits, both analog and digital, are accommodated by embedding them as “tiles” or “clusters” into ...

For many years now, there has been a trend toward open source in the field of system development. It can be seen in software libraries for the product itself as well as in development tools. A clear ...

Daniel Ansorregui has developed LightInk, an open-source solar-powered E-ink watch inspired by 90s solar digital watches. It ...

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The semiconductor industry is at a crossroads amid the rising cost of design and production of chips, and in this backdrop and an unprecedented consolidation wave, open-source hardware comes across as ...

In a nutshell: For the growing community of at-home hardware tinkerers, a new project offers a striking example of how low-cost components and open-source collaboration are closing the gap between ...

What if designing a sleek, professional-grade user interface was as simple as typing a sentence? Imagine describing your ideal mobile app or website in plain language and watching it come to ...