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This is Posting Number two of four in a series about open source hardware & freedom called “Open Source Hardware & my & your Freedom.” This episode is about: The Problem with Non-Commercial and “Not-For-Profit” 
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I have been attending the excellent Liberty on the Rocks (LOTR) events in Denver as of late, which take place on the 1st and 3rd weeks of every month. These informal meetings often have guest speakers, and are filled with liberty-minded thinkers and entrepreneurs. If you live in the area, I strongly suggest you attend.
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If necessity is the mother of invention, then the need for cheap, efficient, compact servers and network equipment has madeFacebook an innovator of gear optimized for cloud data centers and workloads. It’s leadership in the development of standard, hyper scale hardware using interchangeable commodity components led tothe Open Compute Project (OCP), bootstrapped by designs and hardware specifications intended for Facebook’s first data center. Two years and five Open Compute Summits later, the project has over 150 members and a growing list of technical specs.
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The impact open source hardware has had in the past year has been momentous. Educators, students and hobbyists have all traditionally been big proponents of open-source hardware, but in the last 12 months we finally saw large companies and professional engineers begin to openly embrace the open source movement as well.
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Graduate students Josh Siegle and Jakob Voigts were planning an ambitious series of experiments at their MIT neuroscience labs in 2011 when they ran into a problem. They needed to record complex brain signals from mice, but they couldn’t afford the right equipment: The recording systems cost upward of US $60,000 each, and they wanted at least four. So they decided to solve their dilemma by building their own gear on the cheap. And knowing that they wouldn’t be the last neuroscientists to encounter such a problem, they decided to give away their designs. Now their project, Open Ephys, is the hub of a nascent open-source hardware community for neural technology.
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Pick-and-place (PNP) machines are the robots that grab and drop tiny components onto circuit boards. Designed to make thousands of boards an hour, these super-fast machines are part of the multi-part ballet that is modern manufacturing. And they’re amazingly expensive – sometimes reaching into the millions of dollars.
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jfruh (300774) writes "Blue River Technology built a robot named LettuceBot that uses computer vision to kill unwanted lettuce plants in a field.
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Windell Oskay, Vice President of the Open Source Hardware Association, discusses modern best practices for designing, releasing, and building upon open source hardware, including choices of design tools, hosting, licenses, and other current issues. From the Bay Area Maker Faire 2014 Center Stage.
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The team that is building the Novena project is launching a crowdfunding campaign around the Novena open hardware computing platform.
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As more and more jobs are shed on a daily basis, it’s no wonder why an increasing amount of people are leaning toward the prospect of a moneyless society and resource based economy. Usually, as a general rule, we, as a society, are only presented with a problem when (and only when) the solution for that problem also exists. But in this case, many of the things actually causing the problems are also going to be the very same things that give us our solutions, as well. As more and more labor is replaced by robotics and automated systems, it will only become ever more increasingly apparent that we as a society will soon have a very large disconnect between our actual production capacity and the labor needed to produce those goods. Hence, if we are to avoid complete collapse of our system, we must leave some of our old ways of thinking behind and change our frame of mind from one of survival depending upon compensation for labor, to thriving upon the abundance of resources and goods we have created.
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Internet search giant Google is reportedly working on a pathbreaking idea with an aim to create open hardware platform smartphones that will be customized easily by the customers.
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Gadget designer Andrew "Bunnie" Huang has set out to create a new kind of computer: an open-source laptop.
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Going from an idea for an hardware product to actually making money from it can be a long process. You need to go through design, manufacturing, build a website to sell it … the length of the process can really be a reason not to start for many people. However, thanks to a lot of tools that are available nowadays, it is getting easier and easier to have a tangible product on sale on the web.
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You’ve designed a great widget or board, and it’s time to get some backers to turn it into a shipping product. Up goes a page on Kickstarter, and the questions and money start rolling in.
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An interview with electronics engineer Evangelia Gousiou who is a major contributor to CERN’s Open Hardware Repository.
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Aravind M A is an open source enthusiast both in software and hardware. While pursuing his interests he burnt a lot of electrical appliances at his home and college! He has conducted workshops on Android, mechanical workshop like lathe, drilling machine etc. and has a dedicated group called PhotoElectricChefs where they believe in learning by doing. ... read more on yourstory.com
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Today's neuroscientists need expertise in more than just the human brain. They must also be accomplished hardware engineers, capable of building new tools for collecting and analyzing the brain.
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Pick-and-place (PNP) machines are the robots that grab and drop tiny components onto circuit boards. Designed to make thousands of boards an hour, these super-fast machines are part of the multi-part ballet that is modern manufacturing. And they’re amazingly expensive – sometimes reaching into the millions of dollars.
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Open source hardware isn't just for hobbyists. Early corporate adopters can reap business benefits. (Is Open Source Hardware IT's Next Big Thing?
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Hardware engineer Andrew 'bunnie' Huang on how his path to building an open source computer started with a childhood fascination with the Apple II and why we need to rediscover open hardware.
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Drones! Hak5 takes flight in the first of a series on building an open source autonomous aerial system! Darren Kitchen joins Piotr Esden-Tempski. Plus, Software Defined Radio for Android - Shannon Morse reports. All that and more this time on Hak5.
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Open Source for hardware and physical objects and processes is a growing movement. But „how to make money with that“ is the question most people ask within the first minutes. There are a lot of answers – a lot of open source hardware business models. And we get more. This page collects answers and organizes them in the „open source hardware business model matrix“.
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What if there was an open source project that changed how we produce the most fundamental apsects of our lives? From the food we eat, to the houses we live in, this project wants to open source the tools we use to obtain what we need to live. Come to the ChiPy meeting to find out the name of the project.
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You may have heard of 3D printers—they've been all over the news. But you may not know that they represent real opportunity for small business owners. While 3D printers have been around since the 1980s in manufacturing (they were more commonly known as industrial robots), the big change came just a few years ago, when affordable models for hobbyists hit the market. Savvy small business owners take note: we're witnessing the start of an affordable technological revolution, and it's just the beginning.
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