Yann’s Blog

July 2, 2009

SparkFun starts offering Open Source Hardware kits

Filed under: Hardware — Yann @ 5:10 pm

If you’re into DIY electronics, you’ve probably heard of SparkFun before. Their original kits and reseller products, such as the Olimex development boards are a great tool to get up and running fast.

It looks like SparkFun is now hopping on to the Open Source Hardware bandwagon, licensing under the Creative Commons Share-Alike 3.0 License. This is great news! Hopefully more of their products could use this upgrade, and allow people to create derivatives (like fixing the bad analog signal quality on the Logomatic v2).

For reference, their ClockIt kit is now open source. A number of projects come with GPLed microcontroller source code, but not an open source hardware license.

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