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<tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">* distributed workshop</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">* distributed workshop</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">= Opportunities of Scale =</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* Industrial technologies of the past century have succeeded on the basis of their ability to scale.</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* For every one advance that survived, several likely did not due to their inability to scale to the same degree.</td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">* With personal fabrication technologies entering the home, now is the time to mine the past for those missed opportunities of lesser scale.</td></tr>
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AndrewPlumbhttps://clothbot.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=ThoughtsOnOpenSourceHardware&diff=1752&oldid=prevAndrewPlumb at 16:17, 2 December 20092009-12-02T16:17:48Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>= Thoughts On Open Source Hardware =<br />
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Most open source hardware projects today are reworks of solutions to old problems<br />
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= Arduino Auto-Pilot =<br />
* auto-pilot systems have been around for decades<br />
* patents governing the system-level have long-since expired<br />
* commercial MCUs used encapsulate any new processor-related IP.<br />
* commercial sensors (MEMS accelerometers and gyroscopes) encapsulate any new position and orientation related IP.<br />
* board designs are protectable IP, but they're so easily reverse engineered and copied that protection is a waste of time and money.<br />
* The firmware is simple software IP.<br />
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= MakerBot and RepRap =<br />
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* The first additive rapid prototyping machines started appearing in the late 1980s<br />
** patents governing these implementations will have expired by now.<br />
* Subtractive CNC machines have been around much longer.<br />
* Printer technology has been around longer than RP<br />
** Reverse-engineering of ink cartridges to provide 2nd-source established.<br />
* Strength is in breadth of coverage<br />
** different feed-stock<br />
** different implementations<br />
** design enhancements<br />
* distributed workshop</div>AndrewPlumb