Iron Penguin: First open-source Iron Man suit within reach? | Linux Today

Iron Penguin: First open-source Iron Man suit within reach?

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 5, 2013

This is, of course, work that only the most advanced homebrew inventors will want to try. As the failures of Armand Hammer, Ivan Vanko, and Microsoft with Armor 8 have shown, it’s not easy to build your own armor (BYOA).

Still with promising work with the integration of Google Glass, the Parallela supercomputer board, and Raspberry Pi, the first steps to Linux-powered fighting armor suits are being taken. It’s rumored that Linus Torvalds, Linux’s creator, is working on a Iron Penguin, a powered diving suit, to go with his Subsuface diving log program.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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