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Groups of makers, researchers and vendors who publish hardware designs, firmware and files openly so others can build, modify and extend them.
Colorado State University's open-source smoke logger, worn on mule deer collars, recorded air quality differing tenfold from the nearest monitoring stations. No deer in this year's Colorado and Utah deployment met unhealthy smoke, so the behavioral question the device was built for is still open.
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Meta released open source firmware and a Linux SDK for its Muse agent and is giving subscribers 5,000 Home Link dongles. For now the release suits people who tinker; companies hoping to sell Muse hardware have no published terms to build on.
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RoboParty debuted RP1 at IROS 2026, calling it the first full-stack open-source bipedal humanoid, with joint torque peaking at 160 Nm. Labs weighing it against closed robots will need its license terms and published file list before counting on the right to change it.
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A wireless device worn on the animal combines flexible probes, optogenetics, motion sensing, an ultrasonic microphone and a head camera, and runs its event detection onboard so it can intervene while a mouse is still moving.
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A vendor that launched on a $15 board says it will not reprice its way through the memory shortage. Its microcontroller products, which need no DRAM, keep shipping.
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