AYAHALICIANICE WORK

THIS IS NOT HOWTO RUN A MULTI-MILLION $ COMPANYFROM YOUR APARTMENT

WHY DO OPEN SOURCEHARDWARE?LIMOR FRIED

SOFTWARE HADA LICENSEHARDWARE DID NOT

SpokePOV (2003)Makes pictures in the air with a bicycle

Training wheels, literally!

Project was intended for burning man

Not for sale at first

Files didn’t go online - was non-commercial once it was to start

“Learned” MCUs on this...

My ex-boyfriend made a closed derivative for sale

Minty MP32004Music in a mint tin

All ears...

Another project to learn MCUs

Looked at a lot of “available” resources

It was a derivative

Clones made and sold

Wave Bubble (2004)Portable cell phone jammer

Culture jamming

Thesis project for school

Couldn’t sell, it was illegal

It had to be published one way or another

I am apparently a terrorist

MiniPOV (2005)Spell words in the air

Persistence of easy

Built as a giveaway for my dorm

Not “open source”

Later offered as a kit, went open source

Security through low value

x0xb0x (2004-2005)“Open source” Roland 303 clone

ALL THE CLONE DESIGNS WERESECRETIVESO WE SAID “FUCK THIS”

Breaking even strategy

Reverse engineered a broken synth

Wrote everything from scratch

Not OSHW when release, later made it OSHW

THERE WILL BEACID TECHNOIN THE YEAR 2050

“Prove you designed this”...

Open source kit business2006 to present

WHYDOTHIS?WHY PUBLISH JUST TO HAVE YOUR DESIGNS LAUGHED AT AND STOLEN ?

CRITIQUES, RIDICULE & THEFT

YOURPROJECT

HERE

WHAT IFSOMETHING BADHAPPENS?BEING OBSCUREIS THE ENEMY

WTF WERE WE THINKING?

DERIVATIVES MUTANTSMISTAKESTURN YOUR FEAR INTO PRIDE

FULL, PUBLISHEDAND FREEFREE AS IN SPEECHIT HELPS OTHERS FOR SURE

OSHW AS A....A MARKETING TERM?A BUZZ PHRASE?

DO NOT POISONTHIS WONDERFUL THING

WORKING ON HARDWARECAN BE LONELYWITHOUT A COMMUNITY

ALTRUISTIC, CAPITALISTIC, SELF-ABSORBED?WE SHOULD GIVE BECAUSE IT MAKES US BETTER PEOPLE

ONE OF THE BEST THINGS ABOUT OSHWSHARE-ALIKE IS VIRAL

IF YOU’VE CUT OUT A PIECE OF YOUR HEART& GIVEN IT AWAYYOU ARE AWESOME

"Copyright terms were initially 14 years – about the time it took to raise a child to adulthood. After 14 years (or 18 years now, we’ve extended legal infancy) parents really have to let go of their children, and acknowledge they don’t “own” them. In fact they never did. So it is with Art.”

NINA PALEY

SO, WHY DO I CREATE OPEN SOURCEHARDWARE?

WE DO OPEN SOURCEHARDWARE

TO JOIN ACOMMUNITY

WE DO OPEN SOURCEHARDWARE

WHAT WE MAKEWILL OUTLAST US

WE DO OPEN SOURCEHARDWARE

TO BECOMEBETTER ENGINEERS

YOU ALWAYS GET BACK MORE THAN WHAT YOU GIVE

THANK YOU