OGD1: The Open Source Graphics Card
May 23, 2008 by Sean R.
Filed under Misc. Gadgets
Open source software was just the beginning, as we’re now seeing the slow but steady growth of open source hardware as well.
The newest development in this field is now accepting pre-orders — the Open Graphics Project’s OGD-1, a totally open source FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) development platform.
It’s actually not a graphics card yet, but that’s one of the many possible things it could be morphed into, and that’s all part of the plan.
The OGP itself has as their stated mission the creation of a graphics card that has entirely open hardware specs, and can be run …read more
