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Schneier on Security: Security Risks of Embedded Systems
January 9, 2014
Security expert Bruce Schneier wrote an essay on the present dangers of routers and small devices connected to the Internet: Schneier on Security: Security Risks of Embedded Systems. It’s supposed to be a wake-up call for the companies selling integrated chips and embedded systems: they need to design their product better, increasing inherent security, ensuring […]
A sad goodbye to a real maker
January 19, 2013
I did not know Fabio Varesano personally, but I studied some of his work and followed his activities. He wrote an applied thesis on Arduino and his projects led to the manufacturing of the FreeIMU sensors platform and many other solutions. Today I learned that he’s gone. Suddenly, unexpectedly and too early. It’s obvious that he had the […]
Makeblock: the body of your open hardware projects.
December 23, 2012
I have always been the LEGO kid. I especially liked the space sets, but I understood quite soon that the Technic series was the best for me. A couple of times in my life, when I wanted solutions to small physical problems such as “how can I fit this webcam to the top of monitor?”, […]
Arduino: Creation is Child’s Play – Wired.it documentary
December 17, 2012
If someone missed it, there’s an informative and attractive 20-minutes documentary of Arduino, its history and many applications. Arduino: creation is child’s play – Wired.it.
Arduino Blog » The Arduino Wifi Shield is now available
August 25, 2012
The Arduino WiFi Shield is a new tool from Arduino guys. They decided to create a shield with many features, and it costs more than the other shields (more than twice than the Ethernet shield). The reason why they made this shield so complex is to have the possibility to use it alone, without an […]
An example of CPU for FPGAs
August 11, 2012
Zero Characters Left: XENTRAL: A Simple FPGA CPU. The Xentral is an open source example of a CPU that can be synthesized into an inexpensive Spartan FPGA. The HDL source code (written in VHDL) and Xilinx ISE files are here. The project is still at the beginning, the CPU is very simple (e.g. no pipeline) […]
Arduino creator talks at TED
June 30, 2012
Massimo Banzi is one of the creators of the Arduino project. He recently did a wonderful talk at TED Global (here the post about it on the official Arduino Blog, if you wanna show some love). At 4:20 he shows a screenshot that could have been taken from my blog post about Arduino schematics, given […]
JTAGWhisperer: Arduino as a XSVF programmer
February 5, 2012
Dangerous Prototypes features an interesting project, that is similar to my JTAGduino idea. JTAGWhisperer is a solution to program FPGAs and CPLDs using Arduino and a small client-side Python script. It reads files in the XSVF format, which stands for Xilinx Serial Vector Format and is one of the formats used to program Xilinx chips. […]
Bruce Perens on Open Source Hardware
February 1, 2012
Linux Conference Australia, Ballarat 2012. The creator of Busybox and co-founder of Debian makes a compelling and rational argument about who should speak for Open Source, and then offers a hopeful perspective on the new frontiers of Open Source Hardware. He is convinced that today there’s plenty of enabling factors to make Open Source Hardware […]
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