Arduino Mashes Up OSS with Modular Hardware

Posted by sakgarg on Oct 22, 2008 1:18 PM EDT
OStatic; By Sam Dean
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Have you ever heard of Arduino? It's billed as an open source electronics prototyping platform, and proponents claim that it could lead to devices capable of interaction not seen on today's computers. I'd say it's not entirely open source for several reasons, but it does leverage open source software components and an inexpensive starter hardware platform following many of the principles that open source projects follow. O'Reilly has just announced a $12.99 new book called Getting Started with Arduino, intended to kick-start new Arduino projects.

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