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What is Open Source Hardware?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the everyone's-favorite-buzzword dept.

ptorrone writes "In their piece 'What is open source hardware?', MAKE magazine divides up electronic hardware into layers, each of which has different document types and licensing concerns: Hardware (mechanical) diagrams, schematics & circuit diagrams, layout diagrams, core/firmware, software/API — each layer has an example provided and links to many of the open source hardware projects currently being worked on."

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  1. Re:In a nutshell... OpenSPARC from Sun Microsystem by Simon80 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ok, I like Sun and all, and I don't disagree with any of the points you're raising, but how much is Sun paying you to be a Sun fanboy? Perhaps I could get in on this payola action..