3D modeling tool Blender. Blender 2.57. What is OHANDA? OHANDA is the Open Source Hardware and Design Alliance, an initiative that has developed "Four Freedoms" that can be associated with an open design to ensure proper open source use. Their idea is to create an icon that may be displayed on hardware to indicate the permitted usage, similar to a "CC" license in a way. Their description: The proposed solution with OHANDA is a label in the sense of a trademark. The label will connect the 4 Freedoms with any kind of physical device through OHANDA. Freedom 0: The freedom to use the device for any purpose.Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the device works and change it to make it to do what you wish. The obvious question is why can't we just use a standard open source copyleft license instead? OHANDA's solution is pretty simple: You register your product and receive a special "producer id", which legally means you're granting the four freedoms to the user.
4xFreedoms | Open Source Hardware and Design Alliance. Ohanda explanation. Open Manufacturing - Fabbaloo Blog - Fabbaloo. Reader Bryan Bishop points us to a new initiative: "Open Manufacturing", which at the moment appears to be a watering hole for discussions about how to supercharge our space. Now then, exactly how would that be done? Their tagline: Open Manufacturing is about bringing free and open source software development methodology and philosophy to the design and construction of the physical world.
The philosophy is to take cues from the massively successful open source software community and see if analogous solutions could work with the 3D manufacturing space. Eric Hunting lists many void areas within the "open" portion of 3D space today in a very provocative post. We agree with all of this, and the rest of Eric's points in his brilliant article, too. Via Google Groups and Open Manufacturing.