Category Archives: Open-source


Crunchtrack is an open source all-in-one CAN, GSM, and GPS board

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Mastro Gippo’s entry to the 2015 Hackaday Prize is an open source design of a GSM modem, GPS receiver, and CAN transceiver board. I’ve always loved complex machines that can handle and transform huge amounts of energy to make very useful work. Among these machines, my life choices got me into the automotive field, where I’ve been working for the past 10 years. Just after school I found a job at Texa, an automotive diagnostic company, where I was writing software and reverse engineering communication protocols. My passion for efficiency and electronics made me leave that job after 5 years

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F*watch: A fully open electronic watch project featuring multiple sensors

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This fully-open digital wrist watch is designed by a group of employees at CERN as a special present for one of their retiring colleagues who likes hiking and timing. The watch features multiple sensor units including GPS, pressure sensor, 3D-accelerometer, compass, and ambient light sensor. A 128×128 pixels LCD with backlight feature is used for front display. The watch also provides a MicroSD card slot for storage. Powered by a 500 mAh Lithium-ion battery, the project uses Silicon Labs’ EFM32 Giant Gecko ARM® Cortex®-M3 based 32-bit microcontroller as its brain. [via: HackAday]

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