WHY DO OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE
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AYAHALICIANICE WORK
THIS IS NOT HOWTO RUN A MULTI-MILLION $ COMPANYFROM YOUR APARTMENT
WHY DO OPEN SOURCEHARDWARE?LIMOR FRIED
SOFTWARE HADA LICENSEHARDWARE DID NOT
SpokePOV (2003)Makes pictures in the air with a bicycle
Training wheels, literally!
Project was intended for burning man
Not for sale at first
Files didn’t go online - was non-commercial once it was to start
“Learned” MCUs on this...
My ex-boyfriend made a closed derivative for sale
Minty MP32004Music in a mint tin
All ears...
Another project to learn MCUs
Looked at a lot of “available” resources
It was a derivative
Clones made and sold
Wave Bubble (2004)Portable cell phone jammer
Culture jamming
Thesis project for school
Couldn’t sell, it was illegal
It had to be published one way or another
I am apparently a terrorist
MiniPOV (2005)Spell words in the air
Persistence of easy
Built as a giveaway for my dorm
Not “open source”
Later offered as a kit, went open source
Security through low value
x0xb0x (2004-2005)“Open source” Roland 303 clone
ALL THE CLONE DESIGNS WERESECRETIVESO WE SAID “FUCK THIS”
Breaking even strategy
Reverse engineered a broken synth
Wrote everything from scratch
Not OSHW when release, later made it OSHW
THERE WILL BEACID TECHNOIN THE YEAR 2050
“Prove you designed this”...
Open source kit business2006 to present
WHYDOTHIS?WHY PUBLISH JUST TO HAVE YOUR DESIGNS LAUGHED AT AND STOLEN ?
CRITIQUES, RIDICULE & THEFT
YOURPROJECT
HERE
WHAT IFSOMETHING BADHAPPENS?BEING OBSCUREIS THE ENEMY
WTF WERE WE THINKING?
DERIVATIVES MUTANTSMISTAKESTURN YOUR FEAR INTO PRIDE
FULL, PUBLISHEDAND FREEFREE AS IN SPEECHIT HELPS OTHERS FOR SURE
OSHW AS A....A MARKETING TERM?A BUZZ PHRASE?
DO NOT POISONTHIS WONDERFUL THING
WORKING ON HARDWARECAN BE LONELYWITHOUT A COMMUNITY
ALTRUISTIC, CAPITALISTIC, SELF-ABSORBED?WE SHOULD GIVE BECAUSE IT MAKES US BETTER PEOPLE
ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT OSHWSHARE-ALIKE IS VIRAL
IF YOU’VE CUT OUT A PIECE OF YOUR HEART& GIVEN IT AWAYYOU ARE AWESOME
"Copyright terms were initially 14 years – about the time it took to raise a child to adulthood. After 14 years (or 18 years now, we’ve extended legal infancy) parents really have to let go of their children, and acknowledge they don’t “own” them. In fact they never did. So it is with Art.”
NINA PALEY
SO, WHY DO I CREATE OPEN SOURCEHARDWARE?
WE DO OPEN SOURCEHARDWARE
TO JOIN ACOMMUNITY
WE DO OPEN SOURCEHARDWARE
WHAT WE MAKEWILL OUTLAST US
WE DO OPEN SOURCEHARDWARE
TO BECOMEBETTER ENGINEERS
YOU ALWAYS GET BACK MORE THAN WHAT YOU GIVE
THANK YOU