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

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.

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