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  • Flipper One Alternative? Free Wili 2 Multitool packs dual RP2350 chips and FPGA

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blog.adafruit.com /1 month ago

This Mac is open source hardware

DosFox1 has posted OSHintosh on GitHub, an open source hardware Macintosh 512Ke logic board built with no Apple hardware at all. It is a diskless machine: no SCSI, no floppy drive,...

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makezine.com /1 week ago

Open Source Hardware Certifications for September 2026 

The Open Source Hardware Association added certifications for an educational physics device, a 3D printer air mover, a USB protection device, and more. The post Open Source Hardwar...

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blog.adafruit.com /1 month ago

Flipper One Alternative? Free Wili 2 Multitool packs dual RP2350 chips and FPGA

Julian Horsey writing at Geeky Gadgets covers the Free Wili 2, an open source handheld multi tool that Talking Sasquatch put through its paces on video. It runs dual RP2350 process...

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robohub.org /3 weeks ago

An open source approach to physical AI from Intrinsic

Deborah Lupton / Pop Chips / Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 Intrinsic (an AI robotics group at Google) announced that the company is making parts of its platform open source. Intrinsic Core...

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cnx-software.com /3 weeks ago

OpenArm 2.0 – An open-source 7-DOF robot arm with QDD joints, bilateral force feedback, in-hand camera 

Tokyo-based Enactic OpenArm 2.0 is an open-source hardware 7-DOF robot arm designed for physical AI research, teleoperation, and contact-rich data collection. It uses quasi-direct-...

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cnx-software.com /1 month ago

FREE-WILi 2 portable hacking multitool features two RP2350 MCUs, ESP32-C5, ICE40 FPGA, and Raspberry Pi CM0

The FREE-WILi 2 (Founder Edition) is an open-hardware, portable hacking multitool and lab designed for hardware hackers, pentesters, and embedded system developers. Designed as an...

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survivefrance.com /1 month ago

Fairphone!

toryroo: list if[sic] phones that you can install it on, which isn’t that long. Android is not exactly open source but Google have, so far, made source code available to the use...

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cnx-software.com /1 month ago

GPIBee (UsbGpib V3) USB-to-GPIB adapter gains Ethernet (PoE), but launches as closed-source hardware

Last December, we wrote about XyphroLabs’s UsbGpib open-source hardware, affordable, and portable USB-to-GPIB adapter designed for legacy GPIB/IEEE-488 instruments and offering mod...

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electrek.co /1 month ago

Open source semi: Windrose puts its electric truck online, for free

This week, Windrose founder and CEO Wen Han made heavy truck history by putting the CAD models for all 1,023 parts from the X9D01 base model of his Windrose E700 Class 8 electric t...

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electronicsforu.com /1 month ago

Open-Source EDA Stack for Chip Design

A supported open-source EDA stack combines simulation, synthesis, verification, physical design, and AI agents in one chip-design workflow. CaretEDA has launched the 2026.08 releas...

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makezine.com /1 month ago

The First Open Healthware Certifications Are In

OSHWA developed a new certification process specific to open health devices. We are extremely proud to highlight the first Open Healthware Certifications. The post The First Open H...

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geeky-gadgets.com /1 month ago

Flipper One Alternative? Free Wili 2 Multitool Packs Dual RP2350 Chips and FPGA

The Free Wili 2 is a compact, open source platform designed for developers, security researchers and hardware enthusiasts seeking versatility in a portable device. Highlighted by T...

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blog.adafruit.com /3 weeks ago

Firehat: Bringing FireWire to the Raspberry Pi 5

Open Electronics covered Firehat, an open source HAT that adds native IEEE 1394 FireWire to single board computers like the Raspberry Pi 5 and the Radxa ROCK 2F. The point is digit...

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cnx-software.com /1 month ago

OpenMANET – A higher-bandwidth Meshtastic alternative leveraging 802.11ah WiFi HaLow

OpenMANET is an open-source project for building long-range wireless mesh Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (MANETs) using Raspberry Pi SBCs and Wi-Fi HaLow (802.11ah) chips from Morse Micro....

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cnx-software.com /1 month ago

Firehat is an open-source FireWire DV capture HAT for SBCs with Raspberry Pi PCIe FFC connector (Crowdfunding)

Computer Equipment Group has launched the Firehat, an open-source FireWire HAT that adds a native IEEE 1394 / i.LINK / DV port to SBCs with a Raspberry Pi PCIe FFC connector like t...

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cnx-software.com /1 month ago

MNT Station fanless, modular open-hardware computer supports a choice of 10+ Arm CPU or FPGA modules (Crowdfunding)

MNT Research, the Berlin-based team behind the MNT Reform, MNT Pocket Reform, Reform 2, and MNT Reform Next, has launched the MNT Station, a fanless, open-hardware modular computer...

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petapixel.com /1 month ago

This New Open-Source Camera Has Swappable Sensors and Lens Mounts

German electronics company CircuitValley has launched the CHC5 on Kickstarter, which it describes as "the world's first commercially available modular camera system for advanced im...

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cnx-software.com /1 month ago

OpenMote – An ESP32-S3 programmable universal remote in a Wiimote shell (Crowdfunding)

Hat & Hammer has launched the OpenMote, an ESP32-S3-powered programmable universal remote that adopts the familiar, nostalgic form factor of a Nintendo Wiimote. It features WiF...

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cnx-software.com /2 days ago

Semtech LR2021 LoRa chip gets the SDR treatment, supports 100 MHz to 2.74 GHz

Earlier this month, we saw how the humble ESP32-S3 could be turned into an SDR transmitter and receiver; then we saw developer h0m3us3r release the w1700k-sdr project, which turns...

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roboticsandautomationnews.com /4 weeks ago

Robotiq launches open-source software tools for physical AI and robot manipulation

Robotiq has launched three open-source software releases for its adaptive grippers: a C++ SDK, an official ROS 2 package, and updated Nvidia Isaac Sim assets. All three are maintai...

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thequantuminsider.com /4 weeks ago

Q.ANT Launches Open-Source SDK for Photonic Computing

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Q.ANT, the pioneer in commercial photonic computing, today debuted its open-source software development kit for photonic computing, making the program...

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thequantuminsider.com /1 month ago

Fujitsu Releases Open Quantum Application Research Package as Open Source

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Fujitsu Limited today announced the global open-source release of its quantum application development software, Open Quantum Application Research Pack...

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geeky-gadgets.com /1 month ago

Open Source DeepSeek Harness Launches with an MIT License

The DeepSeek Harness, built on the Cordis meta-framework, emphasizes modularity and customization in AI development. Released under the MIT license, it allows developers to adapt i...

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theregister.com /1 month ago

MNT follows up its open hardware portables with a desktop case

Upgrade the portable, give its old mainboard another job

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