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BugLabs grows the open-source hardware ecosystem
In the beginning was the Chumby. And on the second day the community created the BUG, the latest entrant in the open-source hardware market.
Open-source hardware hasn't really taken off...yet. But Dave Rosenberg today alerted me to a new player in the space from BugLabs, which hopes to develop in much the same way that open-source software does. Here's BUG's premise:
BUG is a collection of easy-to-use, open source hardware modules, each capable of producing one or more Web services. These modules snap together physically and the services connect together logically to enable users to easily build, program and share innovative devices and applications. With BUG, we don't define the final products - you do.Silicon Alley Insider took a look and likes what it saw. But the most interesting thing from its report was how small the (initial) market is:… Read more
