The SmartWatch SDK has for a while enabled developers to create apps for the device, which launched in 2012, but today's Open SmartWatch update will let them build and flash alternative firmware to the SmartWatch.
The technology could be used to give the entire Internet a boost of bandwidth with tiny, low-power devices.
When competitors become collaborators in an open-source race to the ecological top, everyone wins.
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Facebook’s Open Compute Project, a huge effort to create and promote open-source hardware, is hosting its first-ever hardware hackathon.
The hackathon will take place next month in Santa Clara, Calif., at the OCP’s Open Compute Summit. The hackathon’s goal is …
Facebook's data center in North Carolina saw record temperatures this year. How did its open-source efficiency scheme work?
Two academically inclined tinkerers made this cool tool for hardware hackers to collaborate and share their designs free of charge.
For the past year, Facebook has been leading a charge to open-source the world of servers and data centers, with the end goal being the cleanest, most energy-efficient Internet we humans can dream up.
And for the past year, we …
LittleBits is a maker/hacker startup through and through, and it’s just taken a sizable round of venture funding from a few of the bigger names in Silicon Valley.
Its product is half building block, half circuit board, and it’s intended …
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When Facebook decided to open-source the hardware that makes its data centers some of the most energy-efficient and innovative in the tech industry, others tech giants were eager to join in and open-source their Internet hardware as well. But not …
What do HP, Salesforce, AMD, VMWare, and Alibaba all have in common?
They’re all partners in the Facebook-led Open Compute Project, a group that aims to revolutionize computer hardware through the power of open-source collaboration.
Facebook’s Open Compute Project is …
Upverter, the fascinating open-source hardware hackers’ tool, has just launched paid accounts.
With these accounts, users can hack away at their designs away from the public eye. It works a lot like Github’s private offerings, where paying users can shield …
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Your Facebook profile doesn’t exist on your computer or in some nebulous cloud called “the Internet.”
It’s stored deep in the brick-and-mortar walls of real-world fortresses. It comes to life as electricity flows through wires that connect tens of thousands …
Today, Facebook announced it is opening up its fancy, redesigned data centers to help hardware hackers learn from and improve on their designs.
The Open Compute Foundation, announced today, will allow anyone to access the designs and specifications for Facebook’s …
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This is the first of a two-part exclusive on Facebook’s involvement with and creation of open source technologies. For these articles, we spoke with two of Facebook’s open source gurus, David Recordon and Amir Michael, about how the company is …
