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Building Open Source Hardware: DIY Manufacturing for Hackers and Makers
- By Alicia Gibb
- Published Dec 7, 2014 by Addison-Wesley Professional.
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About
Features
- Provides information, insights, and context from licensing to remixing, and beyond
- Includes detailed coverage of designing for manufacture and troubleshooting manufacturing problems
- Contains a complete open source hardware kit designed to encourage experimentation
- By Alicia Gibb, founder of the Open Source Hardware Association and organizer of the Open Hardware Summit; includes contributions from many open hardware community pioneers
Description
- Copyright 2015
- Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/8"
- Pages: 368
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-90604-7
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-90604-5
This is the first hands-on guide to the entire process of designing and manufacturing open source hardware. Drawing on extensive personal experience with DIY, maker, and hardware hacking projects, industry-leading contributors share proven approaches to design, remixing, fabrication, manufacturing, troubleshooting, licensing, documentation, and running an open source hardware business.
Part I covers the emergence and evolution of open source hardware, what open source hardware licenses mean, and the growing role of standards in making hardware more open. Part II offers contributors’ expert advice on key tasks, ranging from creating derivatives to using source files. Part III turns to production, showing how to manufacture at multiple scales–from personal to commercial.
Appendixes provide valuable checklists for design, manufacture, security, and documentation. And to foster even more hands-on learning and experimentation, the low-cost Blinky Buildings open source hardware kit is used as an example throughout.
Learn how to
- Get involved in the open source hardware community–its history and values
- Develop designs you can successfully prototype and manufacture
- Walk step by step through making derivatives from existing projects
- Build open source 3D printers, and remix 3D printable objects
- Create open source wearables
- Work with diverse source files, from electronics to other physical materials
- Fabricate your own designs
- Move from prototype to commercial manufacturing, and troubleshoot problems
- Choose a business model and build a profitable open source hardware company
- Avoid pitfalls associated with trademarks, copyrights, patents, and licensing
- Write documentation other hardware hackers can use
- Use open source hardware in education, helping students learn without boundaries
Extras
Author's Site
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Companion Site
Please visit the website associated with Building Open Source Hardware at bit.ly/buildingoshw.
Sample Content
Sample Pages
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Table of Contents
Introduction xiii
Acknowledgments xxiii
About the Authors xxv
Part I: Open Source Hardware Theory 1
Chapter 1: History of the Open Hardware Movement 3
The First Programs, Organizations, and Definitions 4
TAPR OHL 6
OHANDA 6
OSHW Definition, Summit, and Logo 7
CERN OHL 8
Forking of Open Hardware and Open Source Hardware 9
Creation of OSHWA 9
References 11
Chapter 2: OSHW Definition and Best Practices 13
Open Source Hardware Definition 13
Best Practices 16
Summary 30
Chapter 3: Licensing Open Source Hardware 31
Licensing 31
Open Licenses in the Context of OSHW 32
Copyright, Patent, and Trademark: Rights That You Might Be Able to License 33
Actually Licensing a Copyright, Patent, or Trademark 36
What to Do Now 39
Summary 40
Resources 41
Chapter 4: Standardization of Open Source Hardware 43
Firming up the Soft Parts: Making Software Firmer 44
Softening up the Hard Parts: Making Hardware More Flexible 47
Other Standardization and Regulation 49
Summary 51
Part II: Hands On! 53
Chapter 5: The Design Process: How to Get from Nothing to Something 55
The Phase of Projects 56
Iterative Design and Concept Refinement 58
Setting up Your Workflow 60
Managing Constant Iteration 61
Every Master Plan Has an Exit Strategy 61
Preparing for Manufacturing 62
Summary 63
Resources 63
Chapter 6: Making a Derivative 65
Derivatives and Open Source Hardware 65
Blinky Buildings Project 69
Summary 81
Chapter 7: Modifying the Shape of an Arduino 83
Shapes of an Arduino Deriv