He insisted that the Internet Archive's specially developed scanning machine, called Scribe, should be an open-source device, meaning that details of how it works are made available to anyone who wants them.
Election tech firm Free and Fair is hoping to help avoid overflowing voting locations with a simple, open source device that automatically monitors waiting times and keeps voters and officials informed.
Maybe styling their "revolutionary" open source device after a generic handheld GPS keychain wasn't the best of ideas in the end (jk!)…but hey, at least there's still a "Plan B"! Oh, and you can still get your hands on a 2G FreeRunner for $299.
The company, based in Chicago, is providing full documentation of the hardware platform for its recorder, the Neuros OSD (for open source device), so that skilled users can customize or "hack" the device — and then pass along the improvements to others.
The open source device is under development right now (availability is up in the air) but it really points to some interesting work being done on a device that, at least in terms of hype, has fallen into a trough of interest.
This platform can be a paradigm for building open source devices for smart metering and home energy management by controlling electric loads, thus contributing to the development of the smart grid infrastructure.
Here we describe the Open Source Building Science Sensors (OSBSS) project, which we created to design and develop a suite of inexpensive, open source devices based on the Arduino platform for measuring and recording long-term indoor environmental and building operational data.
What is yours?" "The young doctor's exposure to third world medicine in Kenya, Nepal, and Malaysia has given him insight into the injustice of poverty, and he has developed an open source, affordable device that uses a smartphone to view the back and front of an eye.
This is an area where the platform can run into trouble; service providers wanting to install a bunch of default software onto the otherwise open source devices.
Thus, these open source devices are technically superior to the proprietary commercial equipment available on the market while saving over 90% of the costs.
Their assessment is that 3D printers like the RepRap and other cheap, open source devices will change the way we manufacture, allowing little guys like me to help others make cool stuff.
