Reuters is reporting the sudden and untimely death of New Zealand-born hacker Barnaby Jack. Barnaby was scheduled to appear at this week’s BlackHat conference in Las Vegas, NV, with a presentation entitled Implantable Medical Devices: Hacking Humans. His body was reportedly found at an apartment in San Francisco’s Nob Hill neighborhood, according to a police […]
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Seeed Studio’s new PCB assembly prototype service
Seeed Studio PCBA prototype service testing: Appreciated you use our fusion PCB service before. For greatly increase your efficiency for your product design from prototype stage, it bring a new service for your check. We are going to launch a new service online at the end of July—PCB assembly prototype service. We could help […]
panStamp developing MSP430 based module
panStamps are small open source wireless modules designed to add RF connectivity to sensors, MCUs and similar projects. The crew at panStamp is in the process of developing a new module based on the TI CC430F5137 SOC. Programming will be via the Arduino IDE, facilitated through a port being developed by the open sourceEnergia project. […]
Sick of Beige basic case v1 (DP5031) back in stock
Sick Of Beige basic case v1 (DP5031) is back in stock at Seeed Studio. A clear laser-cut acrylic project case kit that fits DP5031 PCBs (50mmx31mm) Sick of Beige v1 DP5031 project case is available at Seeed for $3.
0.65mm pitch xQFP breakout boards back in stock
0.65mm pitch xQFP breakout boards are back in stock at Seeed Studio. These boards make your QFP prototyping faster and easier. They’re available in 0.50mm, 0.65mm, and 0.80mm pin pitch for just $3.
GNU Radio 3.7 released
The GNU Radio team has announced the release of version 3.7. “This is a major new release of GNU Radio, culminating a year and a half of side-by-side development with the new features added to the GNU Radio 3.6 API. With the significant restructuring that was occurring as part of the 3.7 development, at times […]
Diamond package from NXP, the world’s smallest logic package
Drone refers us to this short video from NXP on very small pitch parts (0.35mm) and the challenges in mounting them. NXP debuts their new Diamond package which they report is over 25 percent smaller than their XSON package (suffix GN), previously the world’s smallest package. The video point out that this design retains the […]
Announcing PyBOMBS GNU Radio installation tool
The GNU Radio development team announces their new Python Build Overlay Managed Bundle System (PyBOMBS). If you’ve ever tried to install GNU Radio for use with the RTL-SDR or other software defined radio, you know it can be a hit or miss proposition. Depending on your OS and distro, it an be either flawless or […]
DomiCopter pizza-delivering drone
A few years ago Joe Grand presented his team’s pizza delivering robot on an episode of Prototype This. (See the video here.) The idea was cool but never caught on with any major pizza chain, probably due to the use of a ground based robot, which would be difficult to reliably navigate in unpredictable urban […]
Open Hardware Summit 2013 call for papers
The Open Hardware Summit 2013 has issued a call for papers. The Open Hardware Summit is a venue to present, discuss, and learn about open hardware of all kinds. The summit examines open hardware and its relation to other issues, such as software, design, business, law, and education. This year’s summit will be held September […]
NASA Centennial Challenge to test civilian drone/aircraft avoidance systems
If you need any more confirmation that drones are destined to become a part of everyday civilian life, here it is. NASA has announced the selection of Dayton, Ohio based Development Projects Inc. to manage a new Centennial Challenge prize competition involving unmanned aircraft systems in 2014. The purpose of the contest, known as the […]
Internet census maps usage via network of open embedded devices
A security research group has completed an Internet census revealing interesting facts on usage. According to the abstract by the crew from Carna Botnet, While playing around with the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) we discovered an amazing number of open embedded devices on the Internet. Many of them are based on Linux and allow login […]
The Liberator: 3D-printed pistol
Cody R. Wilson is a 25-year-old University of Texas law student working to build semiautomatic weapons using 3D printers. As depicted in this video, his efforts thusfar have concentrated on the part of an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle known as the lower receiver (the part whose sale and possession is regulated federally in the USA.) Recently […]
Analog Devices releases free version of RF design tool
Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) released a new version of its popular ADIsimRF design tool: The free design tool is the software accompaniment to ADI’s complete portfolio of RF-to-digital functional blocks, allowing engineers to model RF signal chains using devices from across ADI’s RF IC and data converter portfolio. ADIsimRF Version 1.7 adds a number of […]
Cypress announces Arduino shield-compatible PSoC 4
Cypress Semiconductor has announced the availability of their new PSoC 4 system-on-chip device The chip features an ARM Cortex-M0 CPU up to 48MHz, up to 32 kB Flash, 4 kB SRAM, programmable analog: Op-Amps, 12-bit 1Msps SAR ADC, programmable digital: Four PLD-based Logic Blocks, CapSense touch sensing capability, low power operating range of 1.71 to […]
Open Source Hardware Documentation Jam in NYC on April the 26th-28th
Help bring Open Source Hardware to the next stage in New York City at ITP-NYU – April 26-28, 2013 Join us on this 3-day co-design jam to improve Open Source Hardware documentation practices and facilitate collaborative innovation. Create and contribute to one of the several parallel projects that will be prototyped. Software expert? Designer? Hardware […]
MAX2173 RF to bits tuner
Maxim Integrated has announced the availability of their new MAX2173 RF to bits tuner chip. The MAX2173 is a highly integrated direct-conversion tuner for digital audio broadcast (DAB) and terrestrial digital multimedia broadcast (T-DMB) applications in the 168MHz to 240MHz (VHF band-III) and 1452MHz to 1492MHz (L-band) frequency bands. For FM and DRM+ reception, a […]
Biostamp temporary tattoo electronic circuits by MC10
MC10 scientists have developed Biostamp temporary tattoo electronic circuits to monitor health: Materials scientist John Rogers and his firm MC10 have developed flexible electronic circuits that stick directly to the skin like temporary tattoos and monitor the wearer’s health. The Biostamp is a thin electronic mesh that stretches with the skin and monitors temperature, hydration and […]
AMD releases open source UVD support
The Phoronix website is reporting that AMD will be publishing open-source driver code that exposes their Unified Video Decoder (UVD) engine on modern Radeon HD graphics cards, which will allow open-source graphics drivers to take advantage of hardware-accelerated video decoding. Open-source UVD/video-acceleration support to go along with their open-source OpenGL is something Linux uses have […]
OWASP AppSec USA 2013 call for speakers
AppSec USA has announced a call for papers and trainers for their upcoming conference in NYC in November, 2013. AppSec USA is a software security conference for technologists, auditors, risk managers, and entrepreneurs. They invite all practitioners of application security and those who work or interact with all facets of application security to submit speaker […]