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Josef Prusa has long been a champion of Open Source, but defending its use has been an uphill battle. Last July, he surprised no one at all when he announced that “open hardware desktop 3D printing is ...

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 ...

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a partnership between Fermilab and Qblox to manufacture and distribute the Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit (QICK). The effort will scale the ...

The chipmaker’s acquisition brings its Dragonwing-powered board and new AppLab development environment to a 33 million–strong open-source community. Qualcomm will acquire Arduino, the open-source ...

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 ...