This project is very cool. But I wish that the person who wrote this article would have done a bit more research before writing this article
"Copyleft hardware is not nearly as widespread as copyleft software; the Qi Hardware cites just four other projects that follow the same approach: the Elphel digital camera, Pandora game console, the Milkymist One visual-effects video synthesizer, and the Arduino microcontroller. The Arduino's success in particular is an example of what the team behind the Ben hopes to see develop around its NanoNote project."
Make has a yearly open source hardware list that has -dozens- of true open source hardware projects.
"Copyleft hardware is not nearly as widespread as copyleft software"
The core premiss is still true. And it's a huge factor difference. Even if you can cite counter examples, or things they missed the amount of software development happening on Github/Google Code/Sourceforge eclipses open hardware hacking.
It's awesome that early adopters like you are there, but remember that open programable hardware is still uncommon.
You're misquoting my quote ;) The sentence fragment I'm addressing is "...the Qi Hardware cites just four other projects that follow the same approach: the Elphel digital camera, Pandora game console, the Milkymist One visual-effects video synthesizer, and the Arduino microcontroller."
To clarify: there are more than 4 (or 3) other projects. I wish the author had looked a bit harder instead of using only the Qi website!
The Pandora they list isn't actually open hardware. In fact they're actually a bit worried (probably not realistically) that a Chineses knock-off factory will steal their market with a clone.
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This project is very cool. But I wish that the person who wrote this article would have done a bit more research before writing this article
"Copyleft hardware is not nearly as widespread as copyleft software; the Qi Hardware cites just four other projects that follow the same approach: the Elphel digital camera, Pandora game console, the Milkymist One visual-effects video synthesizer, and the Arduino microcontroller. The Arduino's success in particular is an example of what the team behind the Ben hopes to see develop around its NanoNote project."
Make has a yearly open source hardware list that has -dozens- of true open source hardware projects.
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/12/open_source_hardwar...
There's a lot of us! Really! :)
"Copyleft hardware is not nearly as widespread as copyleft software"
The core premiss is still true. And it's a huge factor difference. Even if you can cite counter examples, or things they missed the amount of software development happening on Github/Google Code/Sourceforge eclipses open hardware hacking.
It's awesome that early adopters like you are there, but remember that open programable hardware is still uncommon.
You're misquoting my quote ;) The sentence fragment I'm addressing is "...the Qi Hardware cites just four other projects that follow the same approach: the Elphel digital camera, Pandora game console, the Milkymist One visual-effects video synthesizer, and the Arduino microcontroller."
To clarify: there are more than 4 (or 3) other projects. I wish the author had looked a bit harder instead of using only the Qi website!
Sorry, didn't mean to be a jerk.
It is cool that there are more than just those four projects.
The Pandora they list isn't actually open hardware. In fact they're actually a bit worried (probably not realistically) that a Chineses knock-off factory will steal their market with a clone.