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Submission + - Open Source CPUs Coming to a Club Near You? (milkymist.org) 1

Submitted by lekernel on Thursday October 20, 2011 @01:19PM

lekernel writes: The Milkymist project have started shipping their so-called "video synthesizer", a device used by concert and other event organizers to create live visual effects. Most interestingly, the device is based on their fully open source system-on-chip design, including both a CPU and graphics accelerators — the latter being a significant part of what Open Graphics is still struggling with.

Submission + - Consumer device with open CPU out of beta soon (milkymist.org)

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lekernel

on Monday May 09, 2011 @12:07PM

lekernel writes: "After years of passionate and engaging development, the video synthesizer from the Milkymist project is expected to go out of beta in August.
Dubbed "Milkymist One", it features as central component a system-on-chip made exclusively of IP cores licensed under the open source principles, and is aimed at use by a general audience of video performance artists, clubs and musicians. It is one of the first consumer electronics products putting forward open source semiconductor IP, open PCB design and open source software at the same time.
The full source code is available for download from Github, and a few hardware kits are available from specialized electronics distributors."

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Even though lekernel loves most areas of hacking, a large number of his projects have been around the latest electronic devices out there. He has joined the Prism54 developers' team in 2004, authoring drivers and firmware for different, newer chipsets for which no specification was available. He has also been involved in different industrial projects such as the development in 2006 of the 802.11 embedded driver stack for the Wi-Fi smart rabbit called Nabaztag. In 2008, he has co-founded the OpenPattern company, which produces FPGA-based open hardware devices, and he is mostly involved in PCB and FPGA developments. He is also an active member of the /tmp/lab geek collective, and one of the inventors of the "Consumer-B-Gone" ringtone. He is now spending a lot of time on the development of the Milkymist videosynth platform.

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