copyleft

SAKC, another step to Copyleft Hardware

Wed, 2010-07-28 12:10 — David Samblas

SAKC = Swiss Army Knife Card

What is SAKC?
SAKC is a development board for hardware and software hackers. SAKC has a MIPS processor running at 360MHz, also has an Spartan 3 FPGA. This combination enable many applications like robotics, automation, signal acquisition, and publicity applications. The software is based on Qi-hardware community development, right now there are some distributions available: Openwrt, Debian, Jlime.

本 (Ben) NanoNote Editing/Compiling/Flashing an Arduino sketch

Wed, 2010-05-19 07:38 — David Samblas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apOUKCa4YWg
http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/File:Nanonote_arduino_edit_build_flash.ogv

Following we detail the steps needed to edit, build, an upload an Arduino directly on 本 (Ben) NanoNote

Qi Hardware Commuity News April 29th

Fri, 2010-04-30 13:35 — David Samblas

Hey, the second edition of our community news is out. It is divided between news around the Ben NanoNote, SAKC, Milkymist, OpenWrt and miscellaneous items :)

Tuxbrain part of EOI 20+20 project

Thu, 2010-04-22 17:03 — David Samblas

Tuxbrain has been choosen as one of the twenty companies representing the Open Economy sector in the 20+20 project of Escuela de Organizacion Industrial (Industrial Organization School)
(translation from spanish article)
EOI Escuela de Organización Industrial, in actual change of the Spanish productive model induced by the urgency of

Public thanks to Open Clip Art Library

Thu, 2010-04-15 06:17 — David Samblas

You might notice now it Tuxbrain we use to begin our posts with some image with our mascot/s doing something related with the content of the post, they are basically reuse of the same penguins images again and again, but thanks to Open Clip Art Library , a some GIMP and bit of imagination is matter of minutes to have a new totally different images.

Qi Hardware Community News April 12th

Wed, 2010-04-14 05:01 — David Samblas

Hey,

this is the first issue of the Qi community news. It tries to
capture events, discussions and developments in the Qi community. This
issue tries to capture the developments over the past three weeks.

New ways of get in touch with Qi Hardware community

Fri, 2010-04-02 22:09 — David Samblas

In addition of the developers list, de desarrollo, and the spanish list now Qi Hardware has a IRC channel #qi-hardware on freenode.net/ where always is someone to help in technical issues, development tips or any other issue related with Qi-Hardware devices, you can access to this channel directly from your browser using the following link http://webchat.freenode.net/?randomnick=1&channels=qi-hardware.
Also in the wiki , a web forum has been enabled to those more comfortable than mailing lists

本 Ben Nanonote hits the media

Wed, 2010-03-17 12:27 — David Samblas

How did we get there

Thu, 2010-03-11 02:55 — David Samblas

Repost of original vegyraupe wich Tuxbrain suscribe totally, due we share the same vision :)

Original:how did we get here « sharism.cc

Sharism has launched, the NanoNote is widely available and the pieces for other copyleft hardware projects are coming together. It is time to take a step back, pause for a minute and look at the road behind us. Not to wonder, but to realise what we have accomplished and what we still want to achieve. This is the first of a serious of posts shedding light on the history and more importantly the vision of Sharism at Work.

本 Ben NanoNote available

Tue, 2010-02-16 03:43 — David Samblas

I'm glad to announce, that we have available the 本 Ben NanoNote and we start to ship them tomorrow. You can check the technical characteristics on the link avobe or visit Qi Hardware project page.