Hello,
This month we have a talk on the very cool High Performance Software-Defined
Radio platform:
http://openhpsdr.org
HPSDR is an open source (GNU type) hardware and software project intended as
the "next generation" software-defined radio for radio amateurs and
shortwave listeners. It is being developed by a group of software-defined
radio enthusiasts around the world, and in a modular hardware fashion to
help promote experimentation by both hardware and software developers.
John Melton has held an amateur radio license since 1984 when he was first
licensed as N6LYT while living and working in California, and he was
assigned the UK callsign of G0ORX on moving back to the UK. He became
interested in developing open source software in 1990 with the launch of
AMSAT Oscar 16, an amateur radio satellite with a store and forward
messaging payload. He developed an open source software package to
communicate with the satellite that ran on Linux (pre 1.0) and subsequently
wrote an open source fully automated satellite ground station software
package in Java. John has been a software engineer since 1970 when he was
employed by Burroughs Corporation, and for the last 14 years he has worked
for Sun Microsystems who were acquired by Oracle this year.
For more details and to register:
http://oshug.org/event/5
Cheers,
Andrew
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Date: Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:19 PM
Subject: Reminder: Open Hard&Software Event in Munich (4th/5th December) -
we still have room for more topics & speakers
To: discussion(a)lists.en.qi-hardware.com
We still need some more speakers and proposals for the German Open
Hard&Software Workshop/Event that we plan for December in Munich.
Details can be found here:
http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Open_HW_SW_Event/de
Please register to the specific German language mailing list to stay
up to date and discuss the agenda.
Topics are e.g. (depends on participants who organize a session or
have something to contribute):
• Openmoko
• Nanonote
• Freerunner Navigation Board v2
• BeagleBoard
• SHR
• QtMoko
• FSO
• Arduino
• OpenPandora
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Hello,
I am new to the oshug list.
I would like to post a suggestion about a osh project.
Would this be welcome in this forum?
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TREE Peter Kämmerling
PeterKa(a)TreeDev.eu
Just a reminder that it's OSHUG meeting #4 this Thursday and if you plan to
attend but have not already registered to please do so. We've a great
agenda with talks on mbed, DesignSpark and London Hackspace. For more
information and to register see:
http://oshug.org/event/4
Regards,
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Hello,
Details are now up on the website for the fourth OSHUG meeting:
http://oshug.org/event/4
Still waiting for a few more details from DesignSpark and London Hackspace,
but registration is now live. We'll add further details as and when we have
them.
The theme for OSHUG #5 will be radio and we have a talk on the extremely
cool OpenHPSDR platform confirmed.
http://openhpsdr.org/
Still looking for a couple more speakers. Might be nice to have a talk on
the affordable Softrock SDR radios, or perhaps something non-ham related,
e.g. an open source hardware GPS, RFID, UWB or more classical radio platform
or project. As ever suggestions and offers to present are most welcome and
indeed encouraged.
Cheers,
Andrew
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In case anyone here isn't aware of the London Hackspace, you might like
to know that they've opened a new space in Hoxton.
To celebrate this, there's a spacewarming party .. come along and find
out about the hackspace group and the space facilities.
http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Spacewarming_party
-adrian
Forwarded at the request of Ayah:
From: ayah bdeir <ayahbdeir(a)gmail.com>
Date: July 15, 2010 12:03:21 PM GMT+03:00
To: Bryan Bishop <kanzure(a)gmail.com>, Open Manufacturing
<openmanufacturing(a)googlegroups.com>, cc-patents(a)lists.ibiblio.org,
diybio <diybio(a)googlegroups.com>, Open Source Hardware User Group
<oshug(a)oshug.org>
Subject: draft of open hardware definition released!
Hello all,
I've had a discussion about this with a few of you already, but
thought would be much better to email the lists. Yesterday, a group of
us, who had been working on an open hardware definition, released
version 0.3 for public comment.
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/07/open_source_hardware_-_oshw_draft_…
We would love your feedback, questions, and signatures! It's very
important for this effort to be inclusive. We are also holding an open
hardware summit:
http://www.openhardwaresummit.org on September 23rd in New York. I
will send an official call for submissions later this week, but in the
meantime, please do consider attending, submitting or supporting.
thanks!
ayah
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MS. MIT Media Lab - www.media.mit.edu
adjunct faculty at NYU - ab197(a)nyu.edu
senior fellow at Eyebeam - www.eyebeam.org
founder - www.littlebits.cc
Hello,
An Open Source Hardware Definition has been drafted and has a growing
number of signatories, some of which are fairly prolific:
http://freedomdefined.org/OSHW
And in related news, there is to be an Open Source Hardware Summit in
New York in September:
http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/
Regards,
Andrew
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Hello,
Just to remind folks that if they intend on coming along on Thursday they
will need to register:
http://oshugsuccess.eventbrite.com/
Apologies to those who have already registered.
If possible try and arrive between 17:45 and 18:00. If you arrive later you
may need to give one of us a call on the number of the door, so that we can
come down and let you in.
Regards,
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On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Matthew McCabe wrote:
> Hmm, so where does this leave the inventor who does not have a day job and
> wants to make a living creating new products? I am a bit torn on this issue
R&D phase does take resources and money so that you can coast while
your stuff doesn't actually exist yet. That's true. There are all
sorts of arrangements to make that happen. After that, it's
sales/branding mostly.
> I am interested to look at hybrid models where a product IS protected by a
> patent or copyright but much of the info needed to produce the thing is
> given away for free. Thus, you basically choose to license the patent to
> whomever wants to use it for personal or, possibly, commercial use. I have
> been thinking about how to apply this idea and it is tricky... How, for
> example, do you make a profit from something if you are giving it away for
> free?
Uh, how about you just use an open source hardware license (something
akin to TAPR but not necessarily TAPR) and then a non-assert agreement
(if you have a patent)? This is along the lines of the Creative
Commons / Science Commons with the PPL license -- but there are some
minor differences I recall. In the case of the Open Invention Network,
they are literally transferring ownership of patents into the pool.
IMHO transferring ownership of the patents is only because that's what
everyone understands (everyone understands a patent pool) but it's not
necessary, I think. You make money by selling kits, instructions, a
good user experience.
> I would love to hear other perspectives on this issue. Also, we may want to
> schedule a talk with one of the IP attorneys in town to get an idea of how
> to appropriately protect IP (or not). And to prod them a bit about these
> hybrid models or just giving something away for free.
I have been looking to work with (as in, hire/pay for) an IP attorney
to help draft a better open source hardware license, plus non-assert
agreements, for Gnusha- the open source tech co-op. However, I
strongly encourage this to be completely separate from Austin
Hackerspace internals-- that'd be cause for alarm and
abandoning/jumping ship.
- Bryan
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From: kampower <echez99(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:29 AM
Subject: [FAB@HOME] Survey on community expectations in Fab@Home governance
To: "Fab@Home Forums" <fabathome-forums(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 Fab@Home 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 Fab@Home community.
Please follow this link or copy to your browser if you experience any
problems.
http://cgi.tu-harburg.de/~somo1774/survey/index.php?sid=19333&newtest=Y&.<http://cgi.tu-harburg.de/%7Esomo1774/survey/index.php?sid=19333&newtest=Y&.>
..
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
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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,
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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
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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,
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* 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.
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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
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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
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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
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1 512 203 0507
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
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(I'll be currating responses at the openmanufacturing.org group, if
anyone is interested in hearing all the responses..)
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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…
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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
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From: Daniel Jolliffe <daniel(a)danieljolliffe.ca>
Date: Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:05 PM
Subject: [GOSH] One week left to contribute to GOSH! publication
To: GOSH! - Grounding Open Source Hardware <gosh(a)piksel.no>
Hello all:
here's the link to the provisional GOSH! publication. this version is
pretty rough: we will begin text editing correcting typos in this
version in the coming days.
Layout stats in about 5 days, and we plan to be finished in eight.
So, if you have something to contribute, now is the time!
http://www.gosh2009.ca/wiki/index.php/Publication_Draft_May5
Daniel
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