Comments on: BUG: Introducing the first open source gadget

By: Taels

Taels — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 04:28:55 +0000

very concise. Very on-target. good show. Alex is totally a d***

By: Jeremy Williams

Jeremy Williams — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:55:09 +0000

The swiss army knife of crazy gadgets, hmm?
It’s be a lot more appealing as an open source project if the base object didn’t cost such a ridiculously large amount.

By: Kewer

Kewer — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:32:48 +0000

But when is it coming to South Africa?

By: SiriS

SiriS — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:43:50 +0000

Alex is a d***.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:45:09 +0000

Or, I could just get a cell phone that does all of this and probably more, without a rediculous price, and without having to carry and switch out 10 modules. Yeah, open source community, go back to Linux or something. =p

By: shane

shane — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:46:02 +0000

I don’t have the chops to do anything with the BUG modules. However, I can’t wait to see what the community can do with these. It is a bit pricey so I think it will take quite a while before adoption is widespread enough that BUG hacking will really take off.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:12:11 +0000

Looks interesting. Though, I bet it will be hard to make your own modules. You would have to get a circuit board printed or something and then write your own drivers for the device. Couldn’t you simply use a standardized port like USB? Does it really have to be open source to allow modding? Plus, if a big business decides to make a module, I doubt they would open source it.

By: Brent

Brent — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:22:58 +0000

looks cool.

By: Koka Sexton

Koka Sexton — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:28:10 +0000

I saw a video from CES that talked about this gadget. The pictures you have make this look much more appealing than the ‘prototypes’ they had on the show floor.