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Open Source Hardware Projects, 2009

Posted by kdawson on from the hard-way dept.

ptorrone writes "MAKE's yearly open source hardware guide is now online with over 125 projects in 19 categories. The creators of all of these projects have decided to publish completely all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, drawings, and 'board' files to recreate the hardware. They also allow any use, including commercial. In other words, you can make a business making and selling any of these objects. This is similar to open source software like Linux, but hardware-centric."

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  1. Bad news by Reikk · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Open source has devastated the software community and increased the prices of legit software. Now open hardware is looking to follow in its footsteps, hurting the economy, losing jobs and ruining lives.

    1. Re:Bad news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      If you're going to troll, at least bother to post anon fool.