littleBits is an opensource library of electronic modules that snap together with tiny magnets for prototyping, learning, and fun. The littleBits system consists of tiny circuit-boards with specific functions engineered to snap together with magnets. No soldering, no wiring, no programming. Each bit has a specific function (light, sound, sensors, buttons, thresholds, pulse, motors, etc), […]

For the next month, the Summit Chairs will be featuring information about our accepted speakers, demos, sponsors and posters.  If you wish to be featured please email or tweet Addie Tom Jenkins and Ian Bogost created the “tiny tinkering” platform to help people solve small-scale problems in their everyday lives. In their systems, gratification comes […]

  Making parallel computing easy to use has been described as “a problem as hard as any that computer science has faced”. With such big challenges ahead, we need to make sure that every programmer has access to cheap and open parallel hardware and development tools. Unfortunately, the industry standard has to date been for […]

You may not have noticed but last year OSHWA adopted some conference policies. This step was encouraged by a friend and member of the open hardware community, Lenore of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, and we happily complied. Luckily, the folks at the Ada Initiative made it easy, they have example drafts of conference policies pretty […]