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Very exciting news indeed. A deal has just been completed that will take Myriad into universities across Europe. The company that set up this open source hardware project has struck an agreement with the STFC’s Europractice project that will see Myriad RF brought to the research faculties and teaching labs…

In addition to software upgrades, we’ve also announced new software package that has been designed to receive wireless signals from Myriad RF board and display the data samples in time domain, performing  IQ constellation and real time FFT.(download here). The software can be used as Spectrum Analyser, configuring basic  set-up…

We’ve just announced a few upgrades to our Myriad software package, which can be downloaded as a stable file for PCs here. The software update enables user to establish the SPI interface with Myriad RF board…

Thanks very much for the many registrations and tweets. The winners will be contacted next week (it’s a bank holiday weekend here in the UK) by email or Twitter. We’ll then have them posted out to you. Look forward to hearing about any projects that you can come up with?…

Open Soure Hardware is proving to be a topic of interest at Design West, which takes place this week in San Jose. There’s a few interesting pieces emerging. This one in EE Times is particularly good… but the one that’s really caught my attention is a debate that’s just started in…

Today (20th April) is the second annual Hardware Freedom Day, a global celebration of openness in the hardware industry. Obviously we’re behind this initiative so we’re putting our money where our mouth is and we’re running a competition for the rest of the month to win free boards. We…

Another distributor has signed up to the Myriad project with Richardson RFPD stocking the first Myriad board. Richardson will distribute worldwide, with Azio doing greater China and Eastel doing Korea. Richardson also brings a really strong, easy to use online store. This is the start of the relationship and…

We’ve had a lot of enquiries about the DEO Nano FPGA interface board that’s listed on the example projects… and we can now say it’s available from its creator’s website – azio-tw.com. And there’s a special promotion on too. The board is normally $150 but there is currently a…

Strong praise indeed from EE Times, who covered the board last week – a little earlier than we’d hoped but some good coverage, good comments and good web traffic. Full coverage from EE Times can be found here and my favourite comment coming from R Sweeny: “[Myriad RF is]…

The site and project has been announced to the press and coverage (and, wonderfully web hits) are beginning to happen. Lime’s official announcement is below Open source RF hardware project to further innovation using wireless communications spectrum Non-profit initiative creates low cost, easy to use, fully configurable RF platform with…

The site is moving out of alpha testing and into beta today. I’ll post the official press release in the next blog entry but for now I wanted to give a big thank you to everyone that’s helped. Especially David Bengston for spotting something significant recently. As we move into…

We’ll get full a full how-to guide on this project up on the example projects section shortly. But for now, a really rather interesting project to stream audio between a PC and speakers has been created by Stefan Moridio. It’s still a bare bones project and was the…