Open Source Hardware (electronics) projects

I am very interested in open source projects.Even I am working on it.
See one of my open source project at digital GNU.This is basically a parallel port project.You can check it here.
Even there are more floating in the internet.Please check these links
http://www.ladyada.net/
Her blog
http://www.ladyada.net/rant/
Check her another page http://www.adafruit.com/
Also some coll video at here http://citizenengineer.com/
I will [...]

Free Softwares in University Labs

I am in Jyothi Engg College Cheruthuruthy,Kerala,India.Here to say the most commonly used OS is Window$ XP.So shifting to GNU/Linux I think its not easy.Even I have asked the CS Lab Department.
One of my Friend Shyam K (I only know him through IRC at smc-project FREENODE) has given an open letter to his HOD about [...]

COOL BeagleBoard

While surfing through the blog of Pramode Sir (His new blog on http://blog.fosstronics.com/)I came up with a post on BeagleBoard demo at Bangalore

Searching more I found about this fantastic board.
It’s not for sale right now.It will cost $149(and additional shipping charge).Anyway for an engineering student like me in INDIA will make a very hole in [...]

Free Samples from MicroChip & FreeScale

Yesterday came my free sample of FreeScale accelerometer IC.See the shot.

But it is not possible to solderusing ordinary iron.I had ordered two.One is in the box and the other I have taken to upstairs to solderusing my new microsoldering iron.
Today came the sample of MicroChip. I was shocked to see the IC’s are of DIP.So [...]

My first Free Samples

I had ordered free samples from Texas Instruments,Microchip,Free Scale and ST. ST has rejected my order.Then I had ordered samples from ATMEL .But there was no reply.
But atlast My first free samples from Texas Instruments reached dayafter tommorow.I needed an ZIGBEE sample.The sample came but it is soo small for me to solder.The only [...]