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“Look around your house. Everything that has a proprietary embedded processor in it is a candidate for being reinvented with Open Hardware. That’s how the Internet of Things is going to finally become a reality.”
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SketchChair is an open-source software tool (funded through Kickstarter) that allows anyone to easily design and build their own digitally fabricated furniture.
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map=yes by MapQuest Open and Stamen Design and using data from the OpenStreetMap project is an exploration of possibilities for online cartography and the mapping of open data.
All the code used to generate these maps is available for download and liberal re-use.
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Femtoduino by Fabiano Varesano is an Arduino compatible board which is very small (20.7x15.2 mm) and ultra light (2g) but has exactly the same computing power of the Arduino Duemilanove or UNO.
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Polymaps by SimpleGeo and Stamen is a free Javascript framework for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers. It provides speedy display of multi-zoom datasets over maps, and supports a variety of visual presentations for tiled vector data, in addition to the usual cartography from image-based web maps.
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The Tagtool is an open source performative visual instrument used on stage and on the street. It serves as a VJ tool, a creative video game, or an intuitive way of creating animation. The system is operated collaboratively by an artist drawing the pictures and an animator adding movement to the artwork with a gamepad. The design achieves virtually unlimited artistic complexity with a simple set of controls, which can be mastered even by children. The project website, www.tagtool.org, is the place to find out what people do with their Tagtools, and how to build your own.
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I want one of these!
This is the Parrot AR Drone project from France. It’s possibly one of the most futuristic things I’ve seen apart from the US Air Force’s absolutely terrifying unmanned Predator Drone.
Amazing huh? What if I told you it’s open source, and has an SDK. Even better.
The best thing about it is that all the components to build something like this are relatively inexpensive and available from places like Sparkfun. How cool is that?
