Open Design & Hardware Group

Christian Villum@villum

Software that can be freely used, changed, and shared by anyone.

What is !open source hardware?

"Open-source hardware creates products driven by capitalism rather than monopolies, an open environment for sharing information, and a powerful opportunity for companies and individuals to learn from each other."!

Joshua M. Pearce, Open-Source Lab

10 commercially successful open source hardware companies in 2013

http://bit.ly/oshwcomp!

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• Arduino!• OpenROV!• DIY Drones!• Little Bits!• Sparkfun

• Adafruit!• MakerBot!• UltiMaker!• Raspberry Pi!• beagleboard.org

Other licences include: TAPR (Tucson Amateur Packet Radio) Open Hardware

License, FreeBSD License, MIT License, Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)!

Licenses that do not permit commercial use are not considered to be OSHW

What license should I use?

CERN Open Hardware License

GNU General Public License (GPL)

Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

What can be shared?• Original design files, e.g. 2D drawings, CAD files, circuit

schematics and layouts!

• Bill of materials!

• Software and firmware!

• Photos!

• Instructions and other explanations!

http://www.oshwa.org/sharing-best-practices/

Robohand

Raspberry Pi peristaltic pump

Peristaltic pump from Adafruit ($25)

Syringe pump (0.3ml intradermal)

$200 OpenFuge

PhoneScope

Arduino-based ketosis detector

e-Health sensor platform

Hose clamp

Spectrometer

Open source electrophysiology: FlexDrive

OpenBCI

CT scanner

Safety & security?

Safety & security?

“Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”

Eric S. Raymond

Why does

make sense?

Reduces redundancy

Reduces costs

Increases productivity

Accelerates innovation

Broadens the market

Patents?

Where we’regoing, we don’tneed…patents.

Images used under the Creative Commons license:!OpenFuge by CopabX!Question by Henry Rider from the Noun Project!Brandenburg Gate by Robert Hufton from the Noun Project!Rasperry Pi Peristaltic Pump by Amber Fechko on Flickr!Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 by James Bastow on Flickr!NHSHD_25Jan_007 by Paul Clarke on Flickr!Snap-together Robohand by MakerBot on Thingiverse!Hose Clamp - Pinch Valve by Tim_C on Thingiverse!Open Mini Spectrometer by peter_ on Thingiverse!Open Source CT Scanner by peter_ on Thingiverse!PhoneScope - customizable by tbaden on Thingiverse!Syringe pump 0.3ml intradermal by siderits on Thingiverse!Enzyme dispenser mechanism by AIR on Thingiverse!Glif + GorillaPod by m-s-y on Flickr!The Glif by Daniel Bagel on Flickr!ISO 9001 in Tsukiji by Chris 73 on Wikimedia Commons!Sparks1 by Joshua M Pearce on Appropedia (licensed under GFDL)

CbnaExcept where otherwise noted, this work is licensed under!

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Based on slidedeck by

Gerrit NiezenSwansea University

RoboHand: http://www.robohand.net/!Hose Clamp: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:28447!Spectrometer: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:148270!OpenBCI: http://www.openbci.com!Peristaltic pump: https://kelpforest.org/projects/peristalticpump/index.html!Syringe pump: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:210756!OpenFuge: http://www.instructables.com/id/OpenFuge/!PhoneScope: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:280004!Ketosis detector: http://jenslabs.com/2013/06/06/ketosense-an-arduino-based-ketosis-detector/!FlexDrive: http://open-ephys.org/#/flexdrive/!OpenBCI: http://www.openbci.com!CT scanner: http://www.tricorderproject.org/blog/towards-an-inexpensive-open-source-desktop-ct-scanner/!e-Health sensor platform: http://www.cooking-hacks.com/documentation/tutorials/ehealth-biometric-sensor-platform-arduino-raspberry-pi-medical!

Links

Open Source Ecology: http://opensourceecology.org/ HACKberry: http://exiii-hackberry.com/

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