Soapbox: The {Unspoken} Rules of Open Source Hardware. I truly believe open source hardware is here to stay. It has established itself as a great community, a great effort, and for many, a great business. I spend most of my days working on open source hardware in some way, and I wanted to talk about some of the {unspoken} rules we all, well, many, seem to follow. Why? Because the core group of people who’ve been doing what we’ve collectively called “open source hardware” know each other — we’re friends, we overlap and compete in some ways, but we all work towards a common goal: sharing our work to make the world a better place and to stand on each other’s shoulders and not each other’s toes : ) I’m sure there will be some folks who agree strongly with what I’ve outlined as “unspoken rules,” others, I hope will completely disagree with many points too.
That’s great, it’s time we start this conversation. OK, let’s go! We pay each other royalties, even though we don’t need to. As odd as it sounds, we pay each other. We credit each other, a lot. Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Sprayer Machine. How would you like to make a single or multiple Printed Circuit Boards in less than 2 minutes? Hey again. Hope everyone enjoyed my last Instructable on how to make a grappling hook launcher.
Today I go down a slightly different path of creation. This project has been in my mind for quite some time and I thought it would be a good time to finally build it. The idea began when I was tired of spending 25 minutes sloshing a Printed Circuit Board (PCB from now on) around in a plastic tray and waiting for it to finish etching. It was messy and wasted a lot of time. I would like to present to you my Printed Circuit Board Spraying Machine that anyone with basic tool skills can build. I have also included the Sketchup files (.skp) if you would like to view those. As for the ShopBot contest, if I can build a grappling hook launcher with a fire extinguisher and a Printed Circuit board Machine from a few sprinkler heads, who knows what I could do with a ShopBot?
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