Here’s a cool company that we wanted to share with you: Bug Labs. We find BUG particularly interesting because the company truly seems to capture the spirit of open source- collaboration and community.
BUG is a modular, open source system for building devices that helps developers explore the realm of personalized devices and applications, and find ways to solve many of the problems that current gadgets can’t. The company’s BUGnet online community provides a collaborative environment for developers to connect with each other, share ideas, and jointly build applications.
Bug Labs was created for the new generation of engineers, enabling them to tap their creativity and build any type of device they want, without having to learn solid state electronics or outsource development overseas. The way they explain the company’s story on the website is simply this: “As kids, we were more likely to take apart new toys than actually play with them, just to see what was inside. As teenagers, personal computers were still new and as much a challenge to tinker with as they were to operate. With BUG, we want people to recapture and share this excitement again, and we want them to apply this to their everyday device. We believe everybody is an inventor at heart, so we’ve developed a platform for users to create and forever modify their favorite gadget, allowing for ultimate customization and use.” You can learn more about the company at: http://www.buglabs.net/