The project isn't live just yet, but creators can sign up to get notified when it launches. Kickstarter posted that it is planned for a debut in September. It's a notable step for Kickstarter.

But Stallman and the FSF have formed a partnership of sorts with Crowd Supply, a crowdfunding company that has been largely focused on open source hardware and software projects.

V8, an open source Google project, is a powerful JavaScript engine for Chrome that's helped advance the web and web applications. V8 also powers the server-side runtime Node.js.

Dragon Innovation, a hardware consultancy business and crowdfunding platform, is offering $100,000 in seed funding to all projects that launch on its platform this month and go on to pass $1 ...

Facebook is leading a revolution in how enterprise hardware is built. About two and half years ago, it launched the Open Compute Project (OCP) to create "open source" data center hardware. That ...

The report looked at 443 hardware projects that have raised over $100,000 on Kickstarter or Indiegogo, and how many of these companies raised outside venture capital equity financing. Maybe most ...