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Additional speaker for OSHUG #3, 1st July.
by Andrew Back 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

Hello, Just to let folks know that Chris Dalby of Current Cost will be speaking about their Bridge [1] device, how this was prototyped with arduino and led to a hackable consumer device which is about to launch. So, along with concurrency.cc and LilyPad this makes for a pretty exciting line up for out third meeting. For more info see: http://oshug.org/event/3 And just to remind folks that they need to register. There is no cost, but this is something we have to do for reasons of security and health and safety. http://oshugsuccess.eventbrite.com/ Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Fwd: [canadareprap] Survey on Community expectations in RepRap and MakerBot governance
by Bryan Bishop 15 Jun '10

15 Jun '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: kampower <echez99(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:23 AM Subject: [canadareprap] Survey on Community expectations in RepRap and MakerBot governance To: Canadian RepRap Operators Group <canadareprap(a)googlegroups.com> Hi everybody, I'm a masters student at TUHH, Technical University of Hamburg. As part of my master’s thesis, I am carrying out a survey to better understand your experience and expectations with regards to the organization of Open design projects. Your opinion as MakerBot and RepRap user and community member is very important to me! That's why I'm inviting you to fill out my survey. Answering the questions may take about 8-10 minutes. The individual responses will be kept strictly confidential, aggregated results will be published as soon as the survey is finished. If you are interested, I can also provide some specific results about the MakerBot and RepRap community. Please follow this link or copy and or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't work. http://cgi.tu-harburg.de/~somo1774/survey/index.php?sid=19333&newtest=Y&lan… The survey is conducted on a per project basis. In case you receive my request more than once, it’s because you are involved in several communities. It would be great if you would fill out the survey more than once, for all projects which are relevant to you. If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me. If you are interested in more details about this research work, please take a look at: http://open-innovation-projects.org/my-research/#part3 Thank you very much for your help! Best regards Marvelous marvelous.onwukamike(a)tu-harburg.de -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Canadian RepRap Operators Group" group. To post to this group, send email to canadareprap(a)googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to canadareprap+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/canadareprap?hl=en. -- - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507

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Event #3 — Arduino: An Open Hardware Success Story.
by Andrew Back 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

Hello, For the third meeting we'll be asking the question "what factors contribute to the success of an open source hardware project?", and using Arduino and derivatives LilyPad Arduino and the concurrency.cc board as the basis for an informal case study. We are hoping to confirm a third presentation on running an Arduino based business (offers to present are, as always, most welcome). Date: Thursday 1st July 2010 Time: 18:00 - 20:00 Location: Osmosoft, SW1 For further info see below or visit: http://oshug.org/event/3 To register: http://oshugsuccess.eventbrite.com/ Regards, Andrew -- * Concurrency.cc - parallel programming for makers and artists The concurrency.cc project describes itself as "a group of educators and researchers exploring the development of tools that make parallel programming more accessible to more people. Our hope is that concurrency.cc will serve the community of developers surrounding parallel and concurrent languages on the Arduino and other low-cost embedded platforms." Adam Sampson is a research associate in the field of concurrent programming and complex systems simulation at the University of Kent. He has enjoyed electronics as a hobby ever since being told off for dismantling the family vacuum cleaner as a small child. Omer Kilic (twitter) is a research student at the University of Kent working on dynamically reconfigurable architectures and embedded systems. He is passionate about the open-source hardware movement and likes tinkering, so much so that he founded TinkerSoc, The University of Kent Tinkering Society. * LilyPad - an Arduino based platform for wearables and e-textiles The LilyPad Arduino is a microcontroller, plus a set of sewable electronic components designed so they can be put together to create interactive wearables or textiles based artworks. There is quite a range of components such as LEDS, sensors, buzzer, accelerometer and more that can be connected with conductive thread. The board is based on the ATmega168V/328Vand was designed and developed by Leah Buechley and SparkFun Electronics. Rain Ashford (twitter) is Senior Producer at BBC Learning where she is presently across the BBC's Media Literacy supertopic portal. During her 10 years at the BBC she has developed and produced many of the BBC's high priority sites and online activities. Passionate about technology, she recently started a Women in Technology network for her colleagues to discuss careers, training, raising their profile and encouraging women to look at careers in tech. She previously worked for BBC R&D as a Technologist where she worked on the groundbreaking R&DTV project and the BBC's developer network, BBC Backstage, she's a hardware hacker, coder, artist, gamer and blogger. -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Open source hardware worth $1billion by 2015.
by Andrew Back 13 Jun '10

13 Jun '10

According to an article in LinuxUser: http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/open-source-hardware-worth-1billion-by-2015/ Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Re: [oshug] Thursday's meeting.
by Andrew Katz 12 Jun '10

12 Jun '10

Hi Andrew As a matter of interest, how long would you like me to talk for? I was thinking maybe 30 mins? I was going to bring my presentation as a PDF/ODP on a memory stick. Presumably you have the technology to make this happen? Looking forward to seeing you later. Best wishes Andrew -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Back [mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com] Sent: 25 May 2010 12:50 To: oshug(a)oshug.org Subject: [oshug] Thursday's meeting. Hello, Just a quick note to remind people that if they are planning to come along on Thursday and have as yet not registered, to please do so as we are almost at capacity. http://oshugsust.eventbrite.com/ Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com _______________________________________________ oshug mailing list oshug(a)oshug.org http://oshug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oshug

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Leicester to trial (open source) hydrogen cars.
by Andrew Back 10 Jun '10

10 Jun '10

Great news for Riversimple! http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5a85a828-73eb-11df-87f5-00144feabdc0.html (apologies if you are not registered with ft.com - it's free, and I just decided to finally register...) I cannot remember the current status of the car, but I believe that they are making efforts to open source as much as possible of the associated design artefacts via the 40 Fires Foundation. Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Lasersaur on kickstarter.com wants $10k to develop an open source laser cutter
by Bryan Bishop 31 May '10

31 May '10

Lasersaur http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/405545346/lasersaur-open-source-laser-c… """ The idea is simple: Design a laser cutter and make the building process repeatable for others. Here's the thing. Laser cutters are traditionally expensive ($30,000 to as much as you can spend) and there are a lot of artist, hackers, architects, designers, DIYers who could do great things with them- if they could afford one, or even get regular access to one. Pretty much anybody who is a maker could benefit from a laser cutter. Unfortunately, turnkey systems are expensive, and there isn't really a clear and simple way to build one. We can change this: with roughly six month of R&D time we can develop a laser cutter which anyone can build, use, and maintain. Most importantly this system will be open source which means anyone can improve and modify the design. Everyone should be able to have a laser cutter! Our goal is to design a 100W machine which is capable of cutting 1/2" (12.5mm) acrylic, wood, multiple layers of fabric or thin sheet metal. Why Laser cutters are a key technology for making things. Remember when people couldn't make their own videos, CDs or print out photos? Me neither (at least we try to forget). In many areas of media, the last century was quite the read-only culture where a few gatekeepers would sit on the means to produce everything. Not the best situation for creativity or for people with lots of cool ideas but no cash. When you look at robotics and fabrication this is still the case. In 2010, a reasonable laser cutter is still well over 30k and therefore outside the budget of most of us. However, we are at a point where this can change. We believe we are able to design a laser cutter that can be built for under 5k (a 100W version) and a budget version (25W) for under 3k. It would be completely open source and repeatable. How this will go down First of all, we need your support! Your pledge is what makes this project possible. Once our funding goal is reached, the first prototype will be formulated. With material testing and debugging underway we can make a solid alpha system in about 6 months. At this point, start checking your snail mail box for the alpha kit (see pledges on how to get one). Once our alpha testers have had a chance to geek out for a few months, we will launch into beta with the beta testers. Then collaborators. Our goal is to launch publicly within a few months thereafter, releasing the project, documentation and schematics to the greater good. We will offer the Lasersaur open source system as kits available to the public as well as offer documentation online for anyone wishing to build their system from scratch. Who we are We (addie and stefan) are alumi from NYU's ITP and more recently fellows at Eyebeam in New York City. Both are institutions dedicated to open source culture and experimentation with cutting edge technology. As individuals, and as collaborators, we have been designing open source software since 2002, hardware since 2006, and like sharing our ideas with the bigger community. Our first open source hardware system was launched in 2007 (CUBIT: the multitouch system, as well as the later Touchkit, 2008). These systems were covered internationally and nationally by media such as MIT Technology Review, The Economist, Der Standard and even CNN. Over the last half a decade, our open source hardware has been built and used by hundreds of people, labs and research universities or institutions. We believe that people should think globally and act locally and the open source movement has been instrumental for this. """ I was kicking around the same idea with a fellow in Austin, TX a while back but we had a sub-$1000 price target. I wonder if these eyebeam fellows will be wise enough to use EMC2? I hope so. - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507

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Thursday's meeting.
by Andrew Back 25 May '10

25 May '10

Hello, Just a quick note to remind people that if they are planning to come along on Thursday and have as yet not registered, to please do so as we are almost at capacity. http://oshugsust.eventbrite.com/ Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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Defensive Patent License
by Bryan Bishop 19 May '10

19 May '10

(I'll be currating responses at the openmanufacturing.org group, if anyone is interested in hearing all the responses..) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: shazzner <shazzner(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:29 AM Subject: [austin-hacker-space] Defensive Patent License To: Austin Hackerspace <austin-hacker-space(a)googlegroups.com> There is some new scuttlebutt over Defensive Patent Licenses as a way out for open-source software companies to avoid patent litigation against producing entities. I think this might be work for hardware along with software too, so we might see a Hackerspace defensive patent pool. Discuss. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/05/will-defensive-patent-license-be-ab… http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/05/dpl-and-fair-troll-business-model-m… -- - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507

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Open Hardware Licensing and Models for Sustainability, 27th May.
by Andrew Back 09 May '10

09 May '10

Hello, For our second meeting we've presentations from Andrew Katz on licensing Open Source Hardware projects and a representative from Pay It Forward on Altruistic 3D printing using RepRap. - Free and open source software is mainstream. Free and open hardware isn't. Andrew is increasingly involved in open hardware, and considers what, if anything, is different about hardware which makes open projects a challenge, and whether it is possible to construct a licence, like the GPL, which has a copyleft element applicable to hardware. Andrew Katz is a partner at Moorcrofts LLP, a boutique law firm in England's Thames Valley and advises a wide range of businesses on free and open source related issues. He has lectured and published widely on the subject and is a founder editor of the International Free and Open Source Software Law Review. Before becoming a solicitor, he trained as a barrister, and moonlighted as a programmer during his studies at Bar School, programming in Turbo Pascal. He has released software under the GPL. - Pay It Forward — Alturistic 3D Printing Pay It Forward is a movement to bootstrap the thingiverse using RepStrap machines to print parts to help other people get started with RepRap machines. Please register to attend via http://oshugsust.eventbrite.com and share via http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5849274/ . And thanks to Paul for further updates to http://oshug.org, including a shiny new logo! Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Back mailto:andrew@osmosoft.com http://carrierdetect.com

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