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How to resolve this :Arduino UNO not working with Arduino wifi shield?
I'm having a lot of issues regarding interfacing an Arduino wifi shield with the Arduino Uno. My Arduino works fine when the shield is not attached to it but when I attach the shield, I'm unable to ...
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Is there an FPGA based vector graphics card project?
I have been messing around with VGA projects as my latest interest. I have a Xilinx Spartan 3E 250K FPGA, which has just barely too little RAM for a full 640x480 frame buffer. So, I'm looking at ...
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Can Arduino be used in commercial products?
Is it legal for me to sell a product that's built with an Arduino? I know that it's open source, but does that mean I can sell my product for profit, or only for use in prototyping?
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open source project hosting tools specifically for hardware design? [closed]
Background
I'm finishing up on my senior project of home automation, and after the year of research I noticed there isn't any collaborative system for open source hardware for home automation, so I'm ...
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open source single-board computer with full orcad schematic [closed]
I realize that a board like beagle-board has all of its orcad schematic available. This is great as I would like to modify the design to suit my needs but the problem is that this board's cpu is not ...
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100% FOSS Linux cellphone - possible? [closed]
Are there any combinations of cellphone + Linux distro out there that allows you to run a near 100% FOSS cellphone with only moderate to mildly severe effort?
Need to haves:
Texting
Calling
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Verilog : Are there any good sites contains open source projects? [closed]
i was wondering if there are any good sites who encourage open source in the fpga world using code in verilog or vhdl?
since the open source community is very powerful and all the big firms ...
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Looking for a good freeware/open source PCB design software equivalent to Altium
I am familiar with Altium PCB design software in my workplace.
But thats an expensive suite to maintain. Is there any decent enough free software which I can use at home for my pet projects? I have ...
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Electronic components in Powerpoint
Is there any (open) powerpoint library of components that could be used to build presentations with electrical/electronics circuit ?
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How to make a design more independent of a particular silicon vendor?
In many hardware projects it would be nice to have the freedom to switch between vendors easily, mainly microprocessors and microcontrollers.
I can see many reasons for wanting to have this freedom, ...
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BSD style Open Source alternatives to CMSIS?
Since the licenses on CMSIS is unclear when it comes to open source,
it is probably a violation to include the CMSIS is a open source project regardless if it using a GPL or BSD style license.
Is ...
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Looking for a open-source ALU
I am looking for a open ALU to compute several equations like these:
y1 = e^((constant1 - x)^2/(2*x))
y2 = constant2/y1
y3 = y2*constant3 + x*constant4
Where x ...
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Does my open source project need be Arduino based to be successful?
I am debating which micro-controller to use for a new open source hardware project. Spec wise, I would rather use an ARM Cortex M3, which is at a similar price-point to an Arduino(avr) based solution ...
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Is there a directory of open source hardware projects?
I would like to print a fairly common circuit. But I don't want to design the PCB myself. Where should I look when searching for PCB layouts?
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Looking for open source FPGA hardware and dev tools
Investigated FPGA boards but cannot find open-sourced board and vendor-neutral FPGA development tools:
The ORSoC manufacturer boasts open-sourcing on its website but I cannot really find strong ...
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How do I detect open-source licence violations by companies?
Let's say I have an open source project with a license that prohibits commercial uses. Then comes along a commercial product with striking similarities in functionality/hardware.
How would I go ...
