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Hardware modular "libre": productos ensamblados como mecanos
Como en cualquier otro "lenguaje" humano , el hardware modular ( consultar Low-tech Magazine ) usa un conjunto de piezas estándar para ensamblar infinidad de objetos, un modo barato y efectivo de conjugar estandarización con personalización. En los sistemas modulares, los mejores creadores de productos son el equivalente a los mejores poetas de haikus ; los maestros de la economía de piezas -en este caso, piezas físicas-, en definitiva. Lograr lo máximo con lo mínimo. " Menos, pero mejor ".
In February of 2012 OSHWA conducted a survey of the international open source hardware community, which received 2091 responses from 70 countries. These are the aggregate results.
OSHW Community Survey 2012 |
Open-Do Initiative interview
Image by opensource.com Open source is used just about everywhere, but when it comes to "safety-critical" systems, like software that flies planes or controls medical equipment, most of us assume that open source just doesn't fit the bill. The regulations and requirements are rigorous, and ill-suited to the usual "fail faster" approach of open source.Electronics supplier SparkFun designs dozens of products a year and they haven’t patented a single one. It’s worked out pretty well so far.
Design Like No One Is Patenting — How SparkFun Stays Ahead of the Pack | Wired Design
Do it yourself and save: Open-source revolution is driving down the cost of doing science
Public release date: 13-Sep-2012 [ Print | E-mail | Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Marcia Goodrich mtunews@mtu.edu 906-487-2343 Michigan Technological University The DIY movement has vaulted from the home to the research lab, and it's driven by the same motives: saving tons of money and getting precisely what you want. It's spawning a revolution, says Joshua Pearce.Is open hardware creating a more open world?
Just as retro ideas from a bygone era can inspire modern fashion, film, and TV trends, today’s researchers are being empowered by the revival of an innovative technology concept from the past: open-source hardware. Open-source hardware is the public availability of designs, mechanical drawings, or schematics of physical technology, such as computer processors or network switches. The Arduino electronics board is one popular example. The concepts behind open hardware have been around for decades. But, with the rise of intellectual property in the 1980s and 1990s, open hardware fell out of favor.
OSHW Survey 2012 – First Numbers | Open Source Hardware Association
The open hardware community survey received 2091 responses from 70 countries ! A big thank you to all those who took the time to fill out the questionnaire. We’re now sorting the data and will publish the aggregate results in the coming weeks.Soapbox: The {Unspoken} Rules of Open Source Hardware
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-175478" title="unspoken_rules" src="http://makezineblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/unspoken_rules.jpg?w=600&h=559" alt="" width="600" height="559" /> 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?
A culture of ethics in open source hardware?
Phillip Torrone of Adafruit and Make wrote a piece on the culture of ethics in open source hardware : 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?
Par Rémi Sussan le 08/06/11 | 8 commentaires | 3,454 lectures | Impression Les fondus d’électronique n’ont pas attendu la vogue actuelle du Do it yourself (DIY) pour se pencher sur la robotique, qui a toujours fait leur bonheur. Pourtant, jusqu’à récemment, il existait une nette séparation entre les travaux souvent brillants des amateurs et ceux des roboticiens professionnels. Une des causes étant peut-être l’absence de systèmes open source d’un haut niveau de complexité permettant aux amateurs de s’inspirer de l’expérience de leurs pairs mais aussi des chercheurs. Jusqu’ici, le choix du logiciel propriétaire restait la norme chez les fabricants. La malheureuse histoire d’Aibo, le chien robot de Sony, en est un exemple .
La robotique open source
Tetalab mixe art et hack
Le Tetalab est un jeune hackerspace basé à Toulouse. Basé à Mixart-Myrys, un centre culturel, il monte entre autres des projets autour de l'art. Hiver dernier, alors que WikiLeaks fait trembler les ambassades du monde entier en faisant fuiter des câbles diplomatiques et s’agiter les rédactions qui publient analyses géopolitiques sur analyses géopolitiques, les hackers toulousains du Tetalab s’emparent à leur façon du sujet.Au Tetalab Hacker Space Factory, le courant alternatif passe
OWNI était au Tetalab Hacker Space Factory (THSF), le festival du hackerspace toulousain. Nous avons rencontré des gens qui, à leur petite échelle, démontrent qu'un autre monde est possible, au quotidien. Just do it, une merguez à la main. Nous sommes revenues cramées du Tetalab , le festival du hackerspace toulousain. Pourtant, nous ne sommes restées que le samedi. Le réveil à 5 h 30 et la jolie chaleur qui régnait sous le hangar du collectif d’artistes Mix’Art Myrys qui accueillait l’événement n’étaient pas les principaux coupables: non, ce qui nous a exalté, happé, épuisé, c’est le bouillonnement politique qui émanait de cette seconde édition placée sous le signe du Do-It-Yourself (DIY).Grant From Mythbusters Offers Advice for Aspiring Hardware Hackers
If you’ve always wanted to tinker with hardware — up to and including building robots — but didn’t know how to start, Grant Imahara of the science-themed, blow-em-up TV show has some advice: “Anything that’s already broken is fair game! The worst-case scenario is it stays broken. The best-case scenario is you find out how it works or, even better, transform it into something else.” Hardware hacking, like other kinds of hacking, boils down to getting your hands dirty and possessing a desire to know what makes things tick. And for many hackers, that desire starts at an early age.Make: Online | In the Maker Shed: Netduino
What’s a Netduino ? Glad you asked! Netduino is an open source electronics platform using the .NET Micro Framework.Photo by Teaspoonofalina A few months ago, during a trip to Brazil, I had the pleasure to meet with one of my school teachers from the days I went to school in São Paulo. While discussing some TED talks around activism, she brought up Ushahidi as an application that could help her address waste disposal issues in her community outside the megalopolis, using SMS and maps to track random piles.