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Slashdot came with this Retro Arcade-Style Clock, designed by Amanda 'w0z' Wozniak.

MONOCHRON - open source retro clock from adafruit industries on Vimeo.


This tokes me the Lady Ada website with some projects on open source hardware.
http://www.ladyada.net/

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  1. Hello Filipi,

    Talking about open source hardware, some nice projects that I like a lot are the Arduino, which is very well know:

    http://www.arduino.cc

    I have an Arduino clone, a Seeeduino Mega. Very cool in the sense anybody can create "hardware" solutions for a lot of problems even having just a basic knowledge about electronics.

    Another cool projects are the Minimig (an Amiga chipset re-implementation in a FPGA), Usebox (http://belogic.com/uzebox/) a very nice video-game running fully on a single microcontroller. In fact since hardware are ever more popular a lot of nice things are starting to show up.

    Fabio Utzig

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  2. This one is also awesome!

    http://dangerousprototypes.com/2010/02/25/prototype-open-logic-sniffer-logic-analyzer-2/

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  3. Hi Fabio!
    Log time hein..

    I had already heard about Arduino Arduino. We are planning to buy some here at IDEIA, and start to use it as a standard arround here.

    The Minimg is really cool. After seeing an image of one implementation of it on a Spartan 3 board, I started to study for my class of VHDL during my undergraduate studies.

    The Uzebox is awesome, I had to build one for my kid :-)

    And that logic sniffer is really the coolest one in those you told me. Just yesterday a colleague here from the IDEIA had asked me about a logic analyzer. I think he is gone build one.

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