
AgonLight2 now is officially listed on OSHWA.org directory as true Open Source Hardware project.
all fun projects at Olimex Ltd
22 Dec 2022 Leave a comment
in BASIC, Retro computers Tags: Hardware, Open, oshw, retrocomputer, Source
30 Oct 2020 Leave a comment
in esp32, industrial Tags: esp32, github, industrial, opc, Open, server, Source, ua
OPC Unified Architecture (OPC UA) is an open, implemented under GPL 2.0 license, machine to machine communication protocol for industrial automation developed by the OPC Foundation.
The OPC UA protocol specification consists of 14 documents for a total of 1250 pages. Due to this complexity, existing implementations are usually incomplete.
This is why we were puzzled to see on Twitter post by Selftronics that they made OPC UA server running on ESP32-EVB!
Here are the details of the implementation, the sources are at GitHub.
11 May 2020 7 Comments
in Android, open source, OSHW Tags: android, e, laptop, Open, Source, teres
Few days ago customer asked if we can ship our Open Source hardware DIY Hacker friendly laptop TERES-I with /e/ pre-installed.
For these who has not clue what /e/ is: The /e/ ROM is a fork of Android with focus on privacy. It’s open source pro privacy compatible with most existing Android applications. The /e/ is alternative to the Apple/Google duopoly on the smartphone.
I have seen Mr. Gael Duval tweet about the /e/ support for TERES-I from March this year, but shame on me I wasn’t try it yet, so I though it’s good time to give it a try.
The install instructions here and are very clear. Unfortunately when I followed them there was no result other than displaying this spash screen for Pine64.
After waiting some minutes I decided that something is wrong and decided to write the image instead with dd command with balenaEtcher.
The image written with balena had same splash for a while then show /e/ install screen:
Be prepared to wait few minutes then the setup screen is shown, it’s same as first Android installation even you can choose Bulgarian language:
After setting up the date/time, your WiFi connection etc you got the home screen:
Settings show that TERES-I now run Android 7 (Nougat):
If you setup account you can go to app store:
Overall /e/ is running fine on A64 TERES-I and people who are used to Android environment, but do not want to be spy by Google service.
17 Apr 2020 Leave a comment
in fpga, open source, OSHW, project Tags: cpu, fpga, icestorm, Open, oshw, Source
Michael Schröder sent us link to his project nand2tetris-13 yesterday.
He managed to build his own CPU, to write Assembler, Jack high level language, OS and then write Fibonacci demo and Pong game. All this done on Open Source Hardware FPGA board iCE40HX8K-EVB with MOD-LCD2.8RTP as display and FOSS tools IceStorm project. Keyboard is done by UART but my guess is that it could be easily implemented by iCE40-IO .
This is perfect project to teach students about so many things: Combinatory Logic, Sequential Logic, Computer Achitecture, Machine code to Assembler, High level language Compilers, simple OS and so on.
And the best here is that you can see this working on hardware not just boring lectures. Student can experiment with their own CPU and write applications like small games etc.
20 Mar 2020 4 Comments
in OSHW Tags: 2020, Hardware, Open, oshw, report, Source
OSHdata published 2020 report about the State of Open Source Hardware and we are extremely proud to be #1 OSHW contributor at OSHWA certification directory.
There is another company from Plovdiv which is #7 – ANAVI Technology, congratulations Leon! You seems to be two positions ahead of Google LLC 🙂
23 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in cloud, event, IoT, Lora Tags: 4.0, industry, iot, Lora, NB-IoT, Open, oshw, Sigfox, Source, Weightless, wifi
Open Source / Free Software for Effective Industry 4.0 Meetup organized by Nexedi GmbH and hosted by Fraunhofer IAO was held on 12th of November in Stuttgart.
There were quite interesting talks mostly focused on Open Source Technologies and their possible use in Industry 4.0.
My slides are now uploaded at Slideshare.
07 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in fpga, raspberrypi Tags: fpga, ice40, icestorm, Open, Source, tools
Andreas Seltenreich sent us message how he is using Raspberry PI to program his iCE40HX1K-EVB and we add to the wiki section.
18 Oct 2017 18 Comments
in workshop Tags: a64, Allwinner, Hardware, laptop, Open, oshw, Source, teres
This Saturday 21st of October we will have TERES I assembly workshop!
Customers from Bulgaria who placed orders for TERES I DIY Open Source laptop will have their laptop kits ready and are invited to come and we assembly them together!
The assembly workshop will be in OLIMEX Training Building and will start at 14.00 o’clock.
No need to have Laptop kit to participate, everyone is welcome to join us.
02 Dec 2016 4 Comments
in olinuxino, open source Tags: antarctica, olinuxino, Open, oshw, rover, Source
One year ago we got request for sponsoring 5 pcs A20-OLinuXino-MICRO for Octanis project from group of students at EPFL, who are making an open source rover (http://octanis.org/rover) that will go to Antarctica.
Their goal was to use A20-OlinuXino-MICRO as a communications base station with LoRaWAN and to use it for onboard image processing of their stereoscopic camera images.
Needless to say the magic words “open source rover project” closed the deal 🙂 We shipped the boards in December 2015 and yesterday got e-mail that the rover operates since February 2016, but he was moved to Antarctica in November and will stay there till February 2017.
You can track the rover position right now at http://octanis.org/constellation/
On GitHub you can see their 3D parts CAD files and all firmware running on the rover. You can reproduce this project with 3D printer.
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