MinnowBoard: Intel’s first Open Source PC with x86 processor

Intel has released a motherboard MinnowBoard, wich is the first Intel-based open hardware board.

Center open technologies Intel introduced the draft MinnowBoard, in which together with CircuitCo created the first motherboard based on processors Intel, distributed in accordance with the principles of Open Hardware.

Schemes of arrangement MinnowBoard, CAD-files (ORCAD, Gerber, DXF) and documentation for assembly are supplied under a license Creative Commons, allowing adaptation of the board to suit your needs and the creation of arbitrary products. Fee is available now and costs $ 199.

Supercomputer the size of a credit card for $ 99

Parallella, Supercomputer the size of a credit card, and passed into the category of Open Hardware.

Adapteva company announced a further development of the design of the project board Parallella as Open Source Hardware.

All related documentation and Parallella scheme now available on GitHub is licensed under Creative Commons BY-SA, source code FPGA HDL and software components, including drivers and SDK for developing parallel applications in C and C taking advantage of OpenCL, published under license GPLv3 / LGPLv3.

Information reflects the latest version of the board, which will soon be put into production. The first 6300 copies of the summer will be sent to users,  who have funded the development on Kickstarter.