There was a time, not quite so long ago, when a computer was a beige box that sat on your desk. Before that, computers were big enough to double as desks, and even farther back, they took up a whol… ...

Yes, Open Source Hardware brought us affordable technology like 3D printers. With the long term effect, that the original inventors largely either went out of business (RepRapPro, others) or went ...

The Knob measures 56 x 17mm (about 2.2″ x 0.6″) and weighs just 31 grams (1.1 ounces). It’s powered by a Raspberry Pi RP204 microcontroller and features an AS5600 magnetic sensor with 12-bit position ...

Open Quantum Design (OQD), a Waterloo-based non-profit organization, has unveiled the world’s first open-source, full-stack, ...

Would you buy a high-end laptop built completely around open hardware and the Linux distro of your choice? Novena offers that opportunity, but it comes with an out-of-the-box experience that might be ...

Ayah Bdeir is a leader in the maker movement, a champion of open source AI, and founder of littleBits, the hardware platform that teaches STEAM to kids through hands-on invention. A graduate of the ...

Every element of the Novena laptop will be open source. Its creator explains why he started the project and what it means for the future of hardware.

“Open hardware, or more specifically open cores for chips is much younger ... Mr. Spooner spent more than four years as a staff writer for CNET News.com, where he covered computer hardware.

In a press release, System76 says "the modern open hardware design makes Thelio the perfect choice for any computer science professional, enabling users to easily modify the system — truly ...

By implementing Zipline’s pattern-matching in hardware, Project Zipline can match more than 64,000 block patterns in real time. Running in software, can handle only around 1,000.

Open source hardware similarly promises that when you buy a device [the “executed” version of the design], you also receive all the source material for that device so you can modify it.