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07-10-2013: Programmable Planet blogs about OHWR

William Murray writes about the ohwr.org site in his blog CERN’s Open Hardware Project: Where White Rabbits Photomultiply. Note that, unlike the blog states, the designs are not made with the Kicad tool.

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26-03-2013: Open Hardware Development presentation

On 19 February Erik made for the electronics community at CERN the presentation Open Hardware Development. While based on the presentation made at the Accelerator conference ICALEPCS, it has been expanded by the interesting sections “Experience with industry” and “Why does it seem to work?

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31-01-2013: 100 projects on ohwr!

We have done some manual counting of statistics on the Open Hardware Repository. There are 100 projects on ohwr: 52 hardware projects 39 HDL or Software projects 9 other projects There are eleven instititutes leading the different projects:

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Exceptionally Hard & Soft Meeting 2012

The Exceptionally Hard & Soft Meeting 2012 will take place in Berlin on December 28-30 2012. Evangelia Gousiou will present White Rabbit and the Open Hardware Repository.

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27-06-2012: CERN Annual Report highlights OH initiative

CERN’s President of Council writes in his message in the CERN Annual Report 2011: “The launch of the Open Hardware Initiative follows other ‘open innovations’, such as the famous example of the web and open access in publishing.

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22-05-2012: Brazil and China join ohwr.org

ohwr.org started with projects designed in Europe and soon it was followed by the RHINO project run in South Africa. Now also projects from Brazil and China are hosted on the site.

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25-04-2012: Is open hardware creating a more open world?

The article Is open hardware creating a more open world? in iSGTW describes extensively OHWR, White Rabbit, RHINO, a commercial partner active on OHWR and many other aspects of Open Hardware projects.

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23-01-2012: Creotech produces 4 CERN OHR designs

The Polish company Creotech, that was already involved in the design of the SPEC PCIexpress FMC carrier, has decided to commercialise three Open Hardware designs that were initiated by CERN: SPEC, FMC ADC 100M 14b 4cha, the FMC DEL 1ns 4cha and the FMC DIO 5ch TTL a.

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13-01-2012: Journal of Instrumentation published OH article

The article Open Hardware for CERN’s Accelerator Control Systems, by E. van der Bij et al, has been published in the Journal of Instrumentation JINST Vol.7, January 2012. It presents concisely the different aspects of CERN’s Open Hardware developments.