A quick summary of the status of programmable ICs and Open Hardware
(this is a reformatted version, in two parts, of a paper originally proposed for a conference)Abstract: making custom integrated circuits at home or school that are more powerful and much more flexible...
View ArticleIt's time to bring FPGA design to the masses
(this is part of a paper originally proposed for a conference)Abstract: making custom integrated circuits at home or school that are more powerful and much more flexible than the popular Open Source...
View ArticleWhat if Europe made its own Open Microelectronics (Education)?
(background: in september 2012 a “coming soon portal for European Businesses” asked me to write an article with the same title as this one here, expanding on what I had already written on the topic. I...
View ArticleDigital innovation or Biourbanism? Both, of course!
(this is the translation of the final part of an article I published on the italian Pionero Web magazine in April 2014. The first part is available here)The official definition of Biourbanism starts...
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"many more gadgets will surely be built with FPGAs"
time-for-fpgaThree and a half years ago, I explained why it’s time to bring FPGAs to the masses. One year later, I wrote that this is the time for European microprocessors and FPGAs.. And guess what I...
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Citizen cloud thoughts, after fOSSa 2015
I had (at least) three big reasons to be at the fOSSa 2015 conference, a couple of weeks ago. Two already covered elsewhere and one, “Citizen Cloud: Towards a more decentralized internet?”, that...
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Forget fablabs and makerspaces! Who ELSE is promoting Digital DIY in Europe?
As some of you may already know, these days I also work in the H2020 research project “Digital DIY”, a world of which 3D printing is only the most fashionable part, but not the biggest, nor the most...
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POSS 2016, from Open Hardware to "Open divorce" (*) and formats
I enjoyed POSS2016 in Paris Last week, I presented the current status of the EU-funded research I am working on these days, that is DiDIY (Digital DIY), at the Paris Open Source Summit. I have already...
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