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Submission + - SPAM: Is this one of the smallest playable Doom devices?

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ptorrone writes: Adafruit has been working on a super-tiny, super-sharp/readable, DOOM playing device (it does more than DOOM, but ... DOOM!). DOOM is often the "hello world" for what's possible on hardware, particularly when there's a screen and some button inputs. Adafruit ported Retro-Go [spam URL stripped] over to work on our QT Py ESP32 Pico board and since Retro-Go has a port of PrBoom for the ESP32, it pretty much just worked loading up the shareware DOOM1.WAD file off of a microSD card. Amazing how capable retro-go is once the hardware layout is defined — Video from testing.
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Submission + - Open-Source electronics maker Adafruit switches to producing face shields & (tomshardware.com)

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ptorrone writes: Tom's Hardware talked to Adafruit about what it’s like to switch from selling tech to selling protective gear, and when hobbyists can expect things to return to normal. In March of 2020, Adafruit was deemed an essential service and business for critical manufacturing in NYC by executive order 202.6, making face shields and making/shipping critical components and electronics for COVID-19 related efforts and testing.

Submission + - Open-source manufacturer Adafruit making & shipping hardware in NYC for COVI (adafruit.com)

Submitted by ptorrone
ptorrone writes: Open-source hardware company Adafruit Industries, was deemed an essential service and business in NYC by Executive Order 202.6. Adafruit is making face shields for the city of New York and providing essential manufacturing, and logistics for medical devices, PPE and COVID-19 related efforts. Read more at Adafruit.

Submission + - Bombshell, the Hedy Lamarr Story – Inventor of what became Wifi, Bluetooth (adafruit.com)

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ptorrone writes: A conversation with Alexandra Dean Director, Bombshell the Hedy Lamarr Story. Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr was called the world’s most beautiful woman—but her hidden legacy as an inventor who helped revolutionize modern communications is even more stunning. Limor "ladyada" an engineer! Interviews the film maker and provides historical context.

Submission + - Meet the new owner of TechShop (adafruit.com)

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ptorrone writes: Meet the new owner of TechShop 2.0, Dan Rasure. TechShop 1.0 recently went bancrupt with a reported $21m in debt. There are new owners now that are taking the helm and rebooting TechShop around the USA. Dan formerly ran for a senate seat in Kansas and had a Windmill start up backed by Mike Pompeo.

Submission + - Rumblefish claims it owns "America the Beautiful" by United States Navy Band (adafruit.com)

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ptorrone writes: Adafruit is now shipping the USA made open-source Arduinos, in celebration Ladyada the engineer posted a Arduino rotating in front of an American flag with the public domain “America the Beautiful” by United States Navy Band as the music. Adafruit immediately received notice from from YouTube stating that the song is owned by Rumblefish. Rumblefish previously claimed to own copyright to ambient birdsongs too.

Submission + - Open source hardware pioneer Ladyada interviews the new MakerBot CEO (adafruit.com)

Submitted by ptorrone
ptorrone writes: Open source hardware pioneer and founder of Adafruit, Limor "Ladyada" Fried sat down and interviewed the new CEO of MakerBot, Jonathan Jaglom. She asked some really tough questions had some suggestions for them too if they're going to turn things around. Discussed: Is there a desire for MakerBot to patch things up with the open source community? Assuring the 3D community there was not any plans to DRM filament and specifically hearing "patents are not the way to win" from the new CEO. Lastly, she suggest the open-sourcing of some specific elements of the MakerBot to get back to its open-source hardware roots — Full overview here.

Submission + - Arduino announces NYC, USA based Adafruit will manufacture Arduino

Submitted by ptorrone
ptorrone writes: At Maker Faire Bay Area on Saturday it was announced that Limor Fried "Ladyada" and Adafruit, who have appeared on /. many times over the last 10 years are now going to be the USA manufacturer of the open-source Arduino. Adafruit has grown from a 1 person company out Ladyada's apartment to over 50+ employees and a 50,000 sq. foot factory in Manhattan. Adafruit is currently shipping the Arduino GEMMA, a wearable open-source micro-controller platform.

Comment Re:Are you backing away from Open Source HW? (Score 4, Informative) 139

by ptorrone (#45457299) Attached to: Interview: Ask Limor Fried About Open-Source Hardware and Adafruit

hi there, i'm one of the folks who work with limor at adafruit and i'm familiar with this product. this is one of the few products that we had to sign many NDA's in order to develop, so we are not able to open source it as per the agreement(s). for that reason we do not put the OSHW logo on it. we will be doing more with BTLE and for those we will have fully open source designs.

Submission + - Hardware is now open (sourced) for business

Submitted by ptorrone
ptorrone writes: CNBC has an interesting article about the growing trend of hardware companies going open-source "The open-source hardware movement is migrating from the garage to the marketplace. Companies that follow an open-source philosophy make their physical designs and software code available to the public. By doing so, these companies engage a wave of makers, hobbyists and designers who don't just want to buy products, but have a hand in developing them". Also in the article, New York City based, open-source hardware company, Adafruit, hit $20 million in revenue this year, tripling year over year.
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Submission + - Hardware Hacker Ladyada Proposes Patent and Education Reform to President of USA (eff.org)

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ptorrone writes: "In a welcome turn of events, President Barack Obama spoke directly to the patent troll problem and the need for more comprehensive patent reform yesterday in a "Fireside Hangout" — a live question and answer session hosted in a Google+ hangout. The President was responding to a question by the prominent electrical engineer and entrepreneur Limor "Ladyada" Fried of Adafruit Industries, who in 2009 won an EFF Pioneer Award for her work with free software and open-source hardware."

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