CES Video Highlights: Bug Labs Lets You Build Your Own Gadget by unmanaged at 1:08 pm EST, Jan 19, 2008
Even though they had a tiny booth at CES, Bug Labs seemed to strike a nerve. In addition to winning CNET's Best of CES Award for emerging technologies, the Bug team excited the crowd with the promise of one gadget to replace the ever increasing menagerie of devices on exhibit elsewhere at the show. Steven Cherry has already discussed why open source hardware is so revolutionary, but its best to just see the Bug for yourself. We talked first to Mehrshad Mansouri, who gave an overview of the device and showed off some of its initial possibilities:
Next up was Bug Labs' Jeremy Toeman, who explained how the bug base, modules, and software actually work together, and what sort of engineering challenges faced the team:
RE: CES Video Highlights: Bug Labs Lets You Build Your Own Gadget by Decius at 3:55 pm EST, Jan 19, 2008
unmanaged wrote:
Even though they had a tiny booth at CES, Bug Labs seemed to strike a nerve. In addition to winning CNET's Best of CES Award for emerging technologies, the Bug team excited the crowd with the promise of one gadget to replace the ever increasing menagerie of devices on exhibit elsewhere at the show. Steven Cherry has already discussed why open source hardware is so revolutionary, but its best to just see the Bug for yourself. We talked first to Mehrshad Mansouri, who gave an overview of the device and showed off some of its initial possibilities:
Next up was Bug Labs' Jeremy Toeman, who explained how the bug base, modules, and software actually work together, and what sort of engineering challenges faced the team:
My brain is just running with cool ideas...
Tell us about some. I've had lots of cool ideas around the Android platform, which I originally heard about from your memestream, but I haven't sat down and started building something yet...
Are you thinking of starting a development project with one of these platforms?
RE: CES Video Highlights: Bug Labs Lets You Build Your Own Gadget by unmanaged at 11:08 pm EST, Jan 20, 2008
Decius wrote:
unmanaged wrote:
Even though they had a tiny booth at CES, Bug Labs seemed to strike a nerve. In addition to winning CNET's Best of CES Award for emerging technologies, the Bug team excited the crowd with the promise of one gadget to replace the ever increasing menagerie of devices on exhibit elsewhere at the show. Steven Cherry has already discussed why open source hardware is so revolutionary, but its best to just see the Bug for yourself. We talked first to Mehrshad Mansouri, who gave an overview of the device and showed off some of its initial possibilities:
Next up was Bug Labs' Jeremy Toeman, who explained how the bug base, modules, and software actually work together, and what sort of engineering challenges faced the team:
My brain is just running with cool ideas...
Tell us about some. I've had lots of cool ideas around the Android platform, which I originally heard about from your memestream, but I haven't sat down and started building something yet...
Are you thinking of starting a development project with one of these platforms?
Well I kinda took a hit here in 2008 but I am still tossing around a few ideas thats all... Let me know what you get into ...
