Wanna hack your car? Macchina is a plug-and-vroom solution

automotive, Car hacking, Crowdfunding, Gadgets, hacking, Kickstarter, Macchina, open source, Open source hardware, Startups, TC March 22, 2017 March 22, 2017 Techsarathy

You can hack your IKEA furniture to be more awesome. You can hack video games to make your fellow gamers hate your guts. And with the help of Macchina —

The Libreboot C201 from Minifree is really really really ridiculously open source

computing, Gadgets, Laptop, open source, rockchip, Software, system on a chip, TC, wi-fi December 9, 2016 December 12, 2016 Techsarathy

Open source laptops — ones not running any commercial software whatsoever — have been the holy grail for free software fans for years. Now, with the introduction of libreboot, a

Google’s Omnitone surround sound project brings us closer to web-based VR

Augmented Reality, Chrome, Developer, Gadgets, Google, open source, TC, Virtual reality, VR July 26, 2016 July 26, 2016 Techsarathy

As has been the case with so many industries, the pendulum of VR will eventually swing back from dedicated apps towards web-based systems — and when that happens, Google will