Defining Open Source Hardware - em0sh
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TLDR
If I can’t edit, see or contribute to your calculations and CAD, it’s not open source. I’ve spent half a year now in trying to develop open source hardware. It has been one of the most frustrating challenges of my career. The reasons are not technical, which adds to that frustration. It feels as though I am trying to train for a marathon, and I am paywalled every hundred meters. I don’t know if I’m a decent runner or not, all I know is that I can’t afford to run a marathon. I go into it more here, but the TLDR of the article is that the state of the art tools are behind paywalls, which is…
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