Source

Super-Sleek Aurora Open Source DJ Mixer Can Be Built From a Kit

We love open source hardware, especially when it can throw some MIDI flange and fade into your party like the Aurora—a dual-channel, USB-powered DJ mixer. All the schematics, bills of materials and source code can be nabbed for free online, or you can have one built and shipped. And it can pull off a pretty mean LED lightshow... More »

6:00 PM on Wed Jul 9 2008
By John Mahoney
6,643 views, 15 comments

Latest by ヨシダさん 25: @johnnyabnormal: I am going to invest in this because your video led me to see others...thanks man! more »

firefox

Firefox 3.0 USB Lets You Take Your Browser Everywhere

Those of you who need Firefox 3 on the go can now get a portable USB edition of the browser from PortableApps.com. The download lets you launch Firefox from your USB and lets you bring all your extensions and bookmarks with you while making sure that the computer you're using doesn't end up saving your info. The file is 8MB and free (though, as with all open source stuff, I'm sure the folks at PortableApps would love it if you threw them a few bucks). [Portable Apps]

8:30 PM on Sun Jun 22 2008
By Elaine Chow
19,811 views, 42 comments

Latest by kaneshadow: @HawkSkater0: ::Kaneshadow feels your screen name pain:: more »

concept

Mimique Cellphone Concept

If anyone ever brings out a phone that looks like this, I'll have 10 of them, thangyewverymuch. A proposal of Californian design studio RKS, the Mimique is all about skins and downloads—a customizable phone with bells on, basically—using, as it does, open source software. I just love that old-school antenna bump and the analog clock. See another picture of it after the jump. More »

8:50 AM on Fri May 16 2008
By AddyDugdale
7,695 views, 20 comments

android

The Top 5 Android Developer Challenge Round 1 Winners

Round 1 of the Android Developer Challenge has come to a close and 46 of the 50 winners have been made public (the remaining four opted not to disclose their work). For your convenience, we dug through the winners and picked five of the apps we think might be in the mix for that sweet $275,000 prize in the final round. More »

4:30 PM on Tue May 13 2008
By Sean Fallon
15,880 views, 38 comments

Latest by Fishguy: Being an iPhone fan boy eagerly awaiting v2.0 I can't help but agree with a number of other readers on here... Many of these apps will come to the iPhone and quite likely be much more refined before they even see more »

open-source

Build Your Own Multitouch Table With the Cubit

Engineers at Eyebeam, a New York arts and technology center, are drastically reducing the cost of ownership for multitouch tables by taking them open-source. Schematics for the Cubit, a multitouch tabletop display, are available online for people who want to make a scaled-down Microsoft Surface for one tenth the Surface's price. More »

2:30 PM on Sun May 4 2008
By Elaine Chow
20,589 views, 25 comments

Latest by n/a: Multitouch building and opensource multitouch software has been around for more than a year on [www.nuigroup.com] It's great that cubit is making kits, but the whole concept of cheap and easy multitouch along with opensource software is nothing new. I would encourage more »

linux

OpenMoko Neo Freerunner Pricing Details Surface

The OpenMoko Neo Freerunner has been in the making since before the Jurassic period, but it looks like official word has now been released regarding the final pricing details. The Linux based cellphone will retail at $399 for a single unit and $3690 for a pack containing ten handsets. More »

4:00 PM on Sat Apr 12 2008
By Haroon Malik
6,612 views, 13 comments

make

Home-Made Daisy MP3 Player Takes Us (London) Underground

Using a $115 Daisy open-source player, and a tin with a London tube map on it, Mchaceortiz made himself an MP3 player with a difference. The six way-retro switches on the tin control the volume, track selection and play and pause, and you can see another shot of it opened up after the jump. More »

7:40 AM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By AddyDugdale
5,673 views, 17 comments

openmoko

Design and Make Your Own OpenMoko Phone

OpenMoko is taking its open philosophy a step beyond its Linux soul and has released the CAD (computer-aided design) files for the Neo1973, allowing you to design and create your own body for the phone. The catch for selfish bastards is that it's under a ShareAlike Creative Commons license, so you've gotta make w/ the show and tell if you whip up a pocket-size Second Coming. [OpenMoko]

1:27 AM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By matt buchanan
4,388 views, 6 comments

microsoft

EU Skeptical of Microsoft's Open Grizzly Bear Embrace

Microsoft's sudden embrace of interoperability and openness is a big change of tune from the tightly puckered song of the past right? Well, the EU says they've heard it all before—at least four times. And while EU regulators breathing down Ballmer's neck is undoubtedly one of the reasons for the shift—you know, aside from remaining relevant and holding on to developers—they said it's not going to let Microsoft off the hook yet. More »

8:20 PM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By matt buchanan
1,507 views, 13 comments

Latest by Drew: I'd like to see MS stop selling Windows in the EU. I wouldn't even care if it killed them. Hey you! You put a web browser in your OS like OSX, BSD, Linux, Palmos, Synergy, (every more »

microsoft

Microsoft Goes Open, Won't Sue Open Source Developers Either

Reading the writing that's on the wall, Microsoft is going to play nice with open source. They've laid out for new interoperability principles for their biggest products: Vista, Office 2007, Server 2008 (plus some more bizzy wares) and "all future versions of these products." Their new get-along principles are "ensuring open connections; promoting data portability; enhancing support for industry standards; and fostering more open engagement with customers and the industry." They're also pledging they will not sue open source developers for using their protocols. More »

11:49 AM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By matt buchanan
5,081 views, 21 comments

Latest by jetdillo: Now, I knew M$ was clueless, but I didn't think they were too stupid to know how to use a calendar. It's nowhere near April 1st. "I've never trusted Klingons and I never will..." more »

turing alarm clock

Home-Made Alarm Clock Beeps Until You Solve a Mathematical Problem

I tend to have a cup of tea and some cereal before I do anything in the morning, but Nicholas Paul Johnson swears by his Turing alarm clock. Powered by an PIC16 microcontroller, Johnson used a four-buck LCD display and has, very sweetly, made the whole thing free and open-source. [cheaphack via MAKE]

10:20 AM on Thu Feb 21 2008
By AddyDugdale
5,973 views, 27 comments

software

Will Mozilla Messaging Breathe New Life Into Thunderbird?

In an attempt to revitalize Thunderbird in version 3.0, Mozilla has announced "Mozilla Messaging" which promises significant improvements to the email client—like calendar integration, better search, and a chat app. While the core focus will still be on email, Mozilla seems committed to developing a product that will offer a broader range of communications tools. Whether or not it will be good enough to get Thunderbird back on track remains to be seen. [Mozilla Messaging via Lifehacker]

7:50 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Sean Fallon
4,426 views, 38 comments

Latest by navvywavvy: I switched to thunderbird a couple of years ago because it handled IMAP way better than outlook. I've never gone back. What's wrong with a program that just serves one purpose and does it well? I have Thunderbird running on my more »

toy fair 2008

Even Toy Fair Exploits Booth Babes

I was honestly shocked to see this at Toy Fair. I mean, it's about toys. Yet they have this model prancing around in a skin-tight outfit that leaves little to the imagination.

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8:20 AM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By matt buchanan
39,130 views, 50 comments

android

Video: New Android UI Shows iPhone-like Animations

The first iteration of Android wasn't the prettiest phone OS by a longshot. However, today's release of the refreshed Android SDK shows a UI that has more than a bit of polish. We took screens, but you should also check out the details, like this video showing smooth, animated transitions. Good on them: Some have speculated that's where most of the iPhone's charm comes from. See for yourself.

9:32 PM on Wed Feb 13 2008
By Adrian Covert
21,786 views, 46 comments

bug labs

Bug Labs Store Launches Monday, Minus Wi-Fi

Bug Labs, the open source gadget hardware kit, will go on sale on Monday at around noon EST. But without Wi-Fi. Getting reliable open source Wi-Fi drivers in the base unit has been problematic, so they're launching without it in a special HiroP unit, named after the main character in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash. There is some good news, though. More »

6:21 PM on Fri Jan 18 2008
By Brian Lam
17,172 views, 21 comments

Latest by Vagabum: My guess is it will only appeal to gear-heads and hackers until they make something a lot more compact and sexy and at a price point that makes it attractive. With open source software the barrier to entry is much more »

revealed

Dash Express Runs on OpenMoko FOSS Platform, Nerds' Heads Explode

Today we learned that the seductively interactive Dash Express GPS navigator is using the OpenMoko open-source mobility platform that led to the Neo 1973 smartphone. This makes the Dash the first product based on OpenMoko's GTA0X reference design, with GPS hardware designed to order by OpenMoko and its parent company, FIC. Did we need one more reason to love this thing? Well, we got it. (There's a press release down below.) More »

10:43 AM on Wed Jan 2 2008
By Wilson Rothman
4,233 views, 9 comments

bug labs sdk

Bug Labs SDK Now Available

For those who can't wait to get their hands on the actual Bug Labs hardware, the Dragonfly SDK is now available for download with virtual hardware, so you can start working on your own apps and genius implementations for the hardware. [Bug Blogger]

7:15 PM on Fri Dec 21 2007
By Adrian Covert
2,086 views, Comment

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