Northern Widget

Open source for the outdoors.

Northern Widget is a company founded by three friends in Minnesota to make scientific data collection in the field easier, cheaper, better, and open-source.

We currently are pushing towards version 1.0 of our ALog data logger in both hardware and software, designing boards to help connect sensors that use the SDI-12 communications protocol, and building concepts for telemetry and sensor-embedded systems.


Work is very much in progress, but please contact us if you are interested in what we are doing. We expect to have our final products finished by the end of Summer 2013, but there should be some significant updates in the meantime.



We support the Open Source Hardware (OSHW) Statement of Principles and Definition v1.0.