Luke posted interesting stuff about XOOS (what is that anyway?). By the time I was done replying, I decided it was worth posting here.

Neat hardware:

• The $100 Propeller is an embedded system with eight cores.
• The $30 Arduino is halfway between programming and electronics, has many nifty daughterboards, and is the cheapest fun thing around.
• The $630 ( Read more... )

I started the whole 'hackability' theme with the basic assumption that the closed-ness of existing hardware prevents creative people from creating ( Read more... )

It's too bad the word mash-ups irritates me, I think it's the right idea. Continuing from the last post ( Read more... )

There is this particular quality that I associate with the ability to change and create a particular artifact. In programming I'd talk about metaprogramming, where one bit of code can operate on other bits of code. Since this idea is typified by MAKE Magazine, my first thought was to call this word 'MAKEness' but I think that metaprogramming in ( Read more... )

WiMAX base stations cost about $1500 for the unlicensed bands ( Read more... )

osnews.com mentions that the Open Graphics Project getting ready for pre-ordering of the initial hardware hacker's edition of the OGD1.

The hardware hacker's edition includes a mid-size FPGA (Spartan-3 XC 3S4000), 256mb of ram, two dual-link DVI plugs, and a bunch of other useful stuff. It's pretty much an FPGA development board tuned towards ( Read more... )