This is the first hands-on guide to the entire process of designing and manufacturing open source hardware. Drawing on extensive personal experience with DIY, maker, and hardware hacking projects, industry-leading contributors share proven approaches to design, remixing, fabrication, manufacturing, troubleshooting, licensing, documentation, and running an open source hardware business.
Part I covers the emergence and evolution of open source hardware, what open source hardware licenses mean, and the growing role of standards in making hardware more open.
Part II offers contributors' expert advice on key tasks, ranging from creating derivatives to using source files.
Part III turns to production, showing how to manufacture at multiple scales–from personal to commercial.
Appendixes provide valuable checklists for design, manufacture, security, and documentation. And to foster even more hands-on learning and experimentation, the low-cost Blinky Buildings open source hardware kit is used as an example throughout.
Learn how to:
- Get involved in the open source hardware community–its history and values
- Develop designs you can successfully prototype and manufacture
- Walk step by step through making derivatives from existing projects
- Build open source 3D printers, and remix 3D printable objects
- Create open source wearables
- Work with diverse source files, from electronics to other physical materials
- Fabricate your own designs
- Move from prototype to commercial manufacturing, and troubleshoot problems
- Choose a business model and build a profitable open source hardware company
- Avoid pitfalls associated with trademarks, copyrights, patents, and licensing
- Write documentation other hardware hackers can use
- Use open source hardware in education, helping students learn without boundaries
Contents[edit | edit source]
- Chapter 16: Building Open Source Hardware in Academia 253
- Life in the Ivory Tower: An Overview 254
- Benefits of OSHW for the Academic 255
- Increased Visibility, Citations, and Public Relations 263
- Increased Funding Opportunities and Student Recruitment 264
- Virtuous Cycle 265
- OSHW Teaching and Service 268
- Summary 275
- References 275
See also[edit | edit source]
- Open-source Lab
- Building research equipment with free, open-source hardware
- Open source science
- Open source optics
- Open source 3-D printing of OSAT
- Open-source hardware
- Quantifying the Value of Open Source Hardware Development
- From Open Access to Open Science: The Path From Scientific Reality to Open Scientific Communication
- The Rise of Platinum Open Access Journals with both Impact Factors and Zero Article Processing Charges
- Professors Want to Share: Preliminary Survey Results on Establishing Open Source Endowed Professorships
- Canadian professors’ views on establishing open source endowed professorships
- Towards open source patents: Semi-automated open hardware certification from MediaWiki websites
- Open-source 3-D printing materials database generator