Open Source

Media publications

• Open Source Hardware: Birth of a Long Tail Market? - Asks what if creating computer hardware became as individualized, as free from corporate control, as open source software, with future scenario where this occurs. (Published 2007.09.19)
• Richard Stallman: On Free Hardware - Stallman's views, definition, problems. Linux Today. (Published 1999.06.22)
• The Future of Hardware is Open Source - Brief analysis of some benefits, problems, and means. Raiden's Realm. (Published 2007.10.08)

	Bug Labs URL: http://www.buglabs.net/ ODP description: Develops BUG: modular software and hardware platform, web-enabled, set of pre-matched components: color screen, camera (video enabled), GPS, accelerometer; snap together, no soldering. Open source.
	Opencores.org URL: http://www.opencores.org/ ODP description: Seeks to design and publish core designs under a license for hardware modelled on the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) for software. Page title: OPENCORES.ORG Page description: OPENCORES.ORG endorses development and hosts a repository of free, open-source cores (chip designs) and supplemental platforms (boards).
	Ronja (Reasonable Optical Near Joint Access) URL: http://ronja.twibright.com/ ODP description: Optical point-to-point data link. Page title: Home Page description: This is advanced menu for Twibright Ronja Optical Datalink Project, a FSO device realized as free technology.
	Ethernut URL: http://www.ethernut.de/ ODP description: Embedded Ethernet board equipped with an Atmel ATmega128 CPU and a Realtek RTL8019AS or LAN91C111 Ethernet controller. Page title: Embedded Ethernet
	SystemC URL: http://www.systemc.org/ ODP description: Broadly supported C++ open source language and simulation kernel for modeling and implementing electronic systems. Page title: SystemC: Welcome
	OpenCollector Database URL: http://opencollector.org/ ODP description: Site has a searchable index of many designs, tools and manufacturers. Page title: Open Collector Page description: Links to pages and projects related to open hardware and free EDA systems
	Writings on Open Source Hardware URL: http://opencollector.org/Whyfree/ ODP description: A collection of links to writings on themes related to Open Source Hardware like definitions, libraries, talks and conferences. Page title: What is 'Open Source Hardware'?
	Bootloader for Microchip PIC USB Microcontroller URL: http://www.diolan.com/pic/bootloader.html ODP description: Bootloader updates firmware through HID interface – use of generic Windows drivers. XTEA encryption for firmware protection. Page title: Open source bootloader for Microchip PIC USB Microcontroller.
	Manticore URL: http://icculus.org/manticore/ ODP description: Was "The HULK"; hardware design for a 3D graphics accelerator, written fully in VHDL. Open source.
	Midi for the Pilot URL: http://www.physicalbits.com/Pilot/PilotMidi.htm ODP description: How to build a midi interface for the palm pilot.
	USB Audio Streamer URL: http://www.raccoonrezcats.com/soundcard.html ODP description: Microchip PIC based USB sound card, driven by interrupts instead of polling. Open source.
	Art Interface Device URL: http://www.interaccess.org/aid/schedule.html ODP description: The Art Interface Device (AID) is a microprocessor platform for building electronic installation art. It can also be used as an interface between such artworks and computers. It will enable the artworks to respond to people and the physical environment. Page title: Art Interface Device - an open source hardware project Page description: This page is the home page for the Art Interface Device, an open source hardware project produced in co-operation with Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre.
	ARM Developments URL: http://www.ap-systems.co.uk/ ODP description: Embedded system based on ATMEL AT91M40800 processor and Network Card based on Crystal CS8900A. Page title: ARM Devlopments
	DAISY: Dynamically Architected Instruction Set from Yorktown URL: http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/daisy/ ODP description: Goals: make VLIW and other novel ILP architectures fully compatible with common extant architectures such as PowerPC, x86, S/390, and Java Virtual Machine. Page title: DAISY -- Architecture Emulation thru Dynamic Compilation
	Open Graphics Project: OGP URL: http://wiki.opengraphics.org/ ODP description: Goals: design an open source hardware, architecture and standard for graphics cards, mainly for open source software and operating systems. Page title: TikiWiki : HomePage