Open Source Hardware

We’re releasing a brand new, open-source mouse design: the Bean, which is a pointing stick mouse (also called a nub mouse).

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As with all of our other kits, the Bean is 3D-printed and fully open-source.

Mechanical files, electrical files, and firmware have all been released, along with documentation on how to make and modify your own. It’s all on Github!

Does anyone have more information? Compass CNC was taken down to 'amicably' resolve a patent infringement case with shaper tools. Their website it totally gutted, their youtube videos are all private.

https://www.compassrouter.com/

I'm trying to find what has been archived from their designs. Surely some people who have built it will have the code, bill of materials, and stl files.

If you're unfamiliar with the project make zine has an article with some pictures. https://makezine.com/article/digital-fabrication/machining/compass-cnc-heads-forward/

Depending on which patents shaper tools claims are relevant this design could be out of the public domain until anywhere from 2030 to 2042!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28025426

The European Chips Act has set ambitious goals and its implementation is a significant pan-european effort. From an academic perspective, last year we published an open letter emphasizing the critical importance of open-source EDA for academia in Europe. We were excited and grateful to see that this initiative triggered the definition of a European roadmap in this area, and a matching Chips JU call for project funding. We believe that the projects funded by this call will have a significant impact. Moreover, we already see rising interest from many EU stakeholders, with increasing investments into open-source chip design, especially in open source IP development (e.g. RISC-V cores), and open source EDA tools.

One additional critical barrier remains toward the end-goal of building real open-source chips, especially for prototyping and education: namely, streamlining the access to open source chip production facilities (foundries) is essential. Programs like ChipIgnite, Tiny Tapeout and IHP’s open source program have become “guiding stars” that demonstrate that everyone with a computer can build chips. We believe that having low-cost, regular and easy access to chip production is critical to create excitement and build up expertise, widening the pool of chip designers with tape-out experience: a true silicon democratization and a further de-mystification of chip design.

The repo is 4 years out of date, anyone has experience with it?

Has anyone tried it? https://milkv.io/vega

I was looking for an open hardware switch and this seems like the best bet. Unfortunately, only the controlling OS seems to be open, the core chip/the networking chip is a common proprietary chip.

Still, has anyone tried it? How difficult is it to setup?

Looks pretty straightforward to setup and seems to have any kind of feature you'd need from a switch in a homelab environment, but what do you think? Should I wait for a more open option or go with the Vega for now?