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A license to build
Not often do you listen to a lawyer speaking and wish he had talked for longer. But then Andrew Katz is no ordinary lawyer. He’s an open source IP specialist, and recently he’s been turning his skills to hardware licensing, notably with the SolderPad and CERN Open Hardware Licenses…
Read moreMigrating from CVS to Git
Today’s software development, both in open and closed source projects, is carried out between groups of developers who may not necessarily be in the same building, city or even country, but there is a need for these teams to work on a single up-to-date version of the projects code …
Read moreKickstarting chip design: The Raspberry Pi effect
On 27th October 2012 Adapteva Inc successfully raised almost $900,000 via the Kickstarter crowd funding website. It’s not the largest amount ever raised on Kickstarter, nor is it the most over-subscribed offering. What makes it unusual is being the first such funding success by a chip design company …
Read moreWho ate my battery?
The Ericsson T95 launched in 2001. It had a 720 mAh Li-Ion battery, a standby time of 300 hours and a talk time of 11 hours. A decade later the Sony-Ericsson Xperia X10 mini was launched. It has a 910 mAh Li-polymer battery, and using 3G, a standby time of approximately 285 hours and a talk time of approximately 3.5 hours with 3G …
Read moreThe rise of the bare-board computer
Bare-board computers are not new – they’ve existed almost as long as microprocessors and until recently were a geek specialism and fairly expensive. But things are changing. Hobbyists have been using Arduino, based on the 8-bit AVR microcontroller from Atmel for some time …
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