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An introduction to open source hardware, hardware hacking and tinkering. Given at the London Flash Platform User Group in March 2008.
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Where next?Where next?
Where next?
Hardware HackingFor Software Scripters
Matt Biddulph
I see no social imperative for free hardware designs like the imperative for free software. Freedom to copy software is an important right because it is easy now–any computer user can do it.
Freedom to copy hardware is not as important, because copying hardware is hard to do.
On "Free Hardware" By Richard Stallman - Linux Today, 1999
Cheap Hardware
Hackable Hardware
3D Printing
“If you can't open it,
you don't own it.”
http://flickr.com/photos/todbot/297702523
http://www.botanicalls.com/twitter/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivibrator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivibrator
Arduino
void setup(){ pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT); }
void loop(){ digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH); // sets the LED on delay(1000); // waits for a second digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW); // sets the LED off delay(1000); // waits for a second}
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/02/making_the_dabagotchi.shtml
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dodeckahedron/1479948624/http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjepson/2069920468/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bekathwia/2303529044/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dodeckahedron/1479948624/http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjepson/2069920468/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bekathwia/2303529044/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dodeckahedron/1479948624/http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjepson/2069920468/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bekathwia/2303529044/
Wearable Electronics
Hardware Geeks In Public
Matt Webb, http://schulzeandwebb.com/2007/hills/slides/?p=47
“It’s getting to the point where it’s as easy to get involved in this
world as it would be for you to go home, open
Notepad, and start writing HTML”
Matt Webb, http://schulzeandwebb.com/2007/hills/slides/?p=47
“It’s getting to the point where it’s as easy to get involved in this
world as it would be for you to go home, open
Notepad, and start writing HTML”
http://tinker.it
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