"While companies like Framework and #Fairphone have been good at being transparent by providing repair information and access.., they are unable to be completely open when it comes to the hardware. One.. reason for this is the reliance on a hardware supply chain peppered with NDAs. One company that takes a.. different approach to that is MNT Research." 💪 @mntmnhttps://www.ifixit.com/News/94927/how-open-hardware-empowers-users#OpenHardware
Le thème : les modèles de language et la robotique open hardware. Si ça vous intéresse de découvrir une autre facette que Skynet et la machine à billet,
It seems to have happened without much fanfare, but about a month ago @purism has released the Librem 5 hardware layouts under GPLv3 (as original PADS and converted KiCad projects), joining the schematics that were already available from the start.
Join us in less than an hour for a tech talk with Andrew "bunnie" Huang. He's currently working on IRIS: (Infra-Red, In-Situ) inspection of silicon, a project to facilitate the non-destructive verification of silicon chips.
There will be lots of time for questions and comments as he is interested to hear peoples' thoughts about IRIS.
"#Tangara is a portable #musicplayer. It outputs high-quality sound through a 3.5 mm headphone jack or Bluetooth, has great battery life, and includes a processor that’s powerful enough to support any audio format you can throw at it. It’s also 100% #openhardware running #opensource software, which makes it easy to customize, #repair, and upgrade. Tangara plays what you want to hear, however you want to hear it." https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara
We need #openhardware with #bluetooth so we can link them it to #MyGNUHealth.
Currently we have @pine64eu smartwatch, but we'd love to integrate scales, glucometers, blood pressure monitors...
Just reply to this toot or send us a message if you know of any device. We'd love to test them!🤗 #GNU#GNUHealth#pinephone#PineTime
Andrew "bunnie" Huang will give a webinar about his project IRIS (Infra-Red, In-Situ) inspection of silicon. A project to facilitate the non-destructive verification of silicon chips.
He'll give a short talk about the project but will leave most of the time for a Q&A as he is interested to hear what people think about IRIS.
Bunnie is an open hardware hacker, and an activist for digital rights.
Join us Thursday May 2, 11.00 CEST. https://nlnet.nl/events/20240502/index.html
Anyone seen a free hardware design of a small PCB that adapts 50pin SCSI (host side) to 68 and 80pins (drive side), including termination of the upper 8 bits?
Without this termination, many drives run unreliable on older computers.
Yes, BlueSCSI, ZuluSCSI and RaSCSI exist. We do use these. But we have plenty of 80pin drives, and these are more appropriate for an SGI or HP 9000 – including the sound & feel (clickety-clack).
Long-shot to end all long-shots but: does anybody know anything about USB on raw Xilinx transceivers (e.g. without a PHY)? Officially it's unsupported, occasionally people say they've gotten it to work and more details on exactly how would be incredibly useful
Has anyone come across any information design research project/group/community which makes infographics of supply chains of the making/manufacturing behind really complex biomedical devices like MRI and drug manufacturing, testing equipments like spectrometers, chromatographs?
With the aim of documenting everything necessary in order to make #openhardware, #opensource alternatives to them?
"April 15th, 2024, in the Top 10 Most Secure Mobile Phones to Buy in 2024, the cybersecurity-focused firm Efani, has ranked Purism Librem 5 as as the #1 most secure phone for the year 2024."
And yes, I have a #Librem5#Linux phone. I'm using it as my daily phone for nearly two years. It is great to be totally in control of your phone, and to have total #freedom to use your phone the way you like.
All great things are made of small things... Today, one of our students achieved proof of principle on turning #singleuseplastic bottles into filament for #3dprinting! Then a #benchy was printed..
From here we scale up production and start making #openhardware out of plastic bottles!!
Tomorrow we're hosting the webinar:
Open source CPU and SoC design : The flow, the challenges and a perspective.
Speaker Charles Papon is the creator of the SpinalHDL, VexRiscv and NaxRiscv projects. He will speak about the tooling involved in designing a CPU and deploying it on hardware. The talk is followed by a Q&A.
I enjoyed reading @mweinberg 's comments to the NTIA on #AI and #openness. Mike's argument is simple: in a space as complex and emergent as AI, we cannot consider free / open licenses a good proxy for openness.
Particularly valuable is Mike's analysis of how openness played out in the field of #openhardware, a good analogous setting for conversations about AI.
If you are affiliated with a university please consider signing the following letter which calls for open-source Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools:
Btw: If you are interested to participate to a public discussion on the development of open-source silicon and open-source EDA please join us on May 14 over #BBB:
Je bosse au 4/5 sur les modèles de langage (LLM, parfois appelées IAs) et à 2/5 sur la robotique open hardware AMA (jlai.lu) French
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