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Open Source Hardware, For Fun and For Profit

Posted by timothy on from the make-it-so dept.

ptorrone writes "Lots of open source hardware articles making the rounds this week, first up — Wired has an excellent piece on the Arduino project, an open source electronics prototyping platform, its founders and business model (they have sold over 50,000 units). And next up MIT's Tech Review has a profile on a few open source hardware businesses including NYC based Adafruit Industries best known for projects like the open source synth (x0x0b0x) and 'fun' projects like the Wave Bubble, the open source cell phone/wifi/GPS/RF jammer."

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  1. Funny, it worked for the Soviets. by EWAdams · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    They took everybody's weapons away, provided full employment (even if most of the jobs were pointless makework), and had a near-zero crime rate. Then the Soviet Union fell apart, guns came back in, and now Russia is run by gangsters.

    Don't tell me gun control doesn't work. You just have to take ALL the guns away. I have no problem with that.

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    I piss off bigots.