Posts Tagged ‘open innovation’
Business - Written Wednesday, June 4, 2008 by Alan Majer - 3 Comments
USB hardware and sharks with laser beams
Fans of the arduino or anyone interested in making cool stuff, might want to take a look at these great USB hardware gadgets (called phidgets) offered by Trossen Robotics.
Note: Actually I just realized that the company which produces phidgets is at phidgets.com. Apparently they’re located in Calgary, Alberta, so much closer to home for Canadian readers of the blog.
All of it works via USB connections and they offer things like servo controllers:

- Venkat on Outsider Innovation 101 and Education 2.0
- Open source hardware – the Arduino
- When the walls come down, will a business be left behind?
- YouTube opens up further – the journey from destination site to open service platform continues
- Learning from the Nano (the car, not the iPod)
- Data Portability: A Video Primer
- Yahoo for integration
- Mass collaboration and the Electric Car?
- Google enters (and opens up) the mobile phone world

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