Interest in open-source hardware (OSHW) has exploded beyond its early hobbyist adopters. Favoring design transparency over confidentiality, the OSHW movement lies at the core of some of the hottest ...

For many years now, there has been a trend toward open source in the field of system development. It can be seen in software libraries for the product itself as well as in development tools. A clear ...

At Hackaday we don’t often feature kickstarter campaigns, but this one is worth noticing in our opinion. It is called Pixy, a small camera board about half the size of a business card that can detect ...

Open source hardware and software development have transformed scientific research by providing freely accessible design schematics, code, and protocols that empower researchers to build, modify and ...

In case you're not in the know, RISC-V is an open source alternative to architectures like x86 and, as with Raspberry Pi ...

The European Commission (EC) has opened a ' call for evidence ' (via LWN.net) to inform the "European Open Digital Ecosystem ...

Open source enters 2026 as core enterprise infrastructure, with growing pressure around sustainability, governance, funding, and licensing shaping its future.

Since e-ink first hit the market a couple decades back, there’s always murmurs of “that’d be great as a second monitor”— but very, very few monitors have ever been made. When the commecial world is ...

For something intended to mimic good old pencil and paper, drawing tablets and the tech behind them are surprisingly ...

Windows desktop has always felt like a curated showroom for Microsoft’s latest services. After all, the company’s defaults ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In the not-so-distant future you will read of ...