Press
Below is a list of recent print articles, blog posts and interviews featuring BUG and Bug Labs. If you’re interested in writing about Bug Labs or BUG, you can browse through our gallery of press images and logos at the bottom of this page.
Recent Press Coverage
I.D. Magazine You Can Do It. BUG Can Help.
June 1st, 2009Open-source hardware developer Bug Labs offers a game-changing solution for upstart gadget makers.
TWiT: This Week In Tech with Leo Laporte FLOSS Weekly 70: Bug Labs
May 24th, 2009Leo Laporte and Randal Schwartz discuss Bug Labs with Ken Gilmer, the company's head of software development
Nikkei Electronics Asia Everybody's a Manufacturer: Era of User-Generated Devices
May 14th, 2009Developers can make use of the public information to develop modules with new functions, and it is also possible to purchase modules from Bug Labs directly. Multiple modules can be combined like electronics blocks to create a variety of equipment using wireless local area networks (LAN). There are said to be over 1,000 developer communities already.
kanYe West UniverseCity BUGLABS MODULAR GADGET FACTORY
May 14th, 2009BUG is a set of tools that lets you mix and match its components to build your own gadget, like LEGO. Each BUGbundle includes a BUGbase, a touchscreen module, an accelerometer and motion detector, a GPS module with remote antenna, and a breakout module.
Reality Sandwich The Emergence of Open Design and Manufacturing
May 13th, 2009For this major transformation to take place however, it is also necessary to conceive of physical production in a much more modular way. This is the approach undertaken for example by Bug Labs, who offers an electronic device that can be modularly composed, with the customer choosing particular pieces that need to be put together. So rather than imagining one community working with one company, as is done in a lot of co-design and co-creation projects, imagine rather a global community of tinkerers, but also a global community of physical production houses, that can download the design and can produce things much more locally.
[technabob] buglabs open-source modular gadget factory: the modder's gadget
May 12th, 2009Bug Labs’ very geeky product is the perfect Modder’s Day gift. You see, BUG is a set of tools that lets you mix and match its components to build your own gadget, like LEGO but a hundred times geekier. Each BUGbundle includes a BUGbase, a touchscreen module, an accelerometer and motion detector, a GPS module with remote antenna, and a breakout module.
Silicon Alley Insider Mobile Startup Bug Labs Having Surprising Success In Enterprise
April 22nd, 2009When open-source mobile gadget startup Bug Labs launched in 2007, it was hoping to first serve the gadget-hacker community -- tinkerers and do-it-yourselfers who wanted to build their own mobile software and hardware. Instead, the company is finding surprising success in the enterprise, Bug Labs founder and CEO Peter Semmelhack tells us.
Dr. Dobbs Bug Labs BUG Update
April 3rd, 2009With the release of the 1.4 build based on the Poky Linux distribution, along with version 1.2.8.1 of the BUG SDK and Eclipse-based Dragonfly development environment, the BugLabs folks are still in the modular system programming game in a serious way.
The Register Linux-Lego man trumpets OSH revolution
March 10th, 2009"[Open Source hardware] will happen. There's nothing stopping it," Bug Labs CEO and founder Peter Semmelhack told The Reg this morning after trumpeting the biz benefits of open-source hardware during a mini-speech at Silicon Valley's Emerging Technology Conference.
Core77 BUGlabs's BUGsound module
February 18th, 2009The beauty of playing with building blocks when you're a toddler is that those simple wooden cubes can be anything you want: A skyscraper, a car, a robot. BUGlabs' new BUGsound, designed by ECCO, is a building block of a different sort, filled with tech goodness.
