1. Hardware hacking
for fun and profit
Matt Biddulph

2. “I see no social imperative for free
hardware designs like the imperative
for free software.
On “Free Hardware”
By Richard Stallman – Linux Today, 1999

3. “Freedom to copy software is an
important right because it is easy
now—any computer user can do it.”
On “Free Hardware”
By Richard Stallman – Linux Today, 1999

4. “Freedom to copy hardware is not as
important, because copying
hardware is hard to do.”
On “Free Hardware”
By Richard Stallman – Linux Today, 1999

5. quote: “The computing revolution was about digitising information. The wireless-communications
revolution is about making digital information about anything, available anywhere, at almost no cost.”
quote: “Huge amounts of data that were once impossible or too expensive to collect will become the
backbone of entirely new services.”
A disruptive change is occurring in the physical environment thanks to physical computing, pervasive
networks and abundant digital storage

6. “IPv6 wants to transform everything in the world, even every part of every thing, into a node.”

8. Cheap Hardware

10. Hackable Hardware

12. Hackable Hardware

13. 3D printers, enabling production on command.
The physical world’s closest thing to the internet concept of ‘free, infinite copies’
Works well with open source - send a cellphone design to Africa and let them modify it for local needs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/472097903/

14. 3D Printing
3D printers, enabling production on command.
The physical world’s closest thing to the internet concept of ‘free, infinite copies’
Works well with open source - send a cellphone design to Africa and let them modify it for local needs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/472097903/

15. 3D printers, enabling production on command.
The physical world’s closest thing to the internet concept of ‘free, infinite copies’
Works well with open source - send a cellphone design to Africa and let them modify it for local needs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/490968291/

16. 3D printers, enabling production on command.
The physical world’s closest thing to the internet concept of ‘free, infinite copies’
Works well with open source - send a cellphone design to Africa and let them modify it for local needs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/893845346/

18. “If you can't open it,
you don't own it.”

19. “If You Can’t Open It, You Don’t Own It”
We modified a simple toy remote control car...

20. ... to have bluetooth control. It’s a mess, but so was my first CGI and now look at me. This is software
people making things happen in the physical world - “Right-click to modify the world”

21. http://www.botanicalls.com/twitter/

23. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivibrator

24. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivibrator

25. Arduino boards make the microcontroller easy to prototype with

26. Arduino
Arduino boards make the microcontroller easy to prototype with

27. Arduino circuit board design is creative commons - make your own, improve the design.

28. void setup()
{
pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT);
}
void loop()
{
digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH); // sets the LED on
delay(1000); // waits for a second
digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW); // sets the LED off
delay(1000); // waits for a second
}
Hello World - almost as easy as scripting
Documented online
Half an hour’s work from unpacking the arduino

30. http://www.flickr.com/photos/dodeckahedron/1479948624/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjepson/2069920468/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bekathwia/2303529044/

31. Wearable Electronics
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dodeckahedron/1479948624/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjepson/2069920468/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bekathwia/2303529044/

33. Tinker.it!
http://tinker.it

34. Disc
laim
er
Tinker.it!
http://tinker.it

39. void updateFill() {
// Calculate fill position, limiting it to the range 0 to
full scale.
if (reading < tare) fill = 0;
else if (reading > (tare+full)) fill = meterFsd;
else fill = (((uint32_t)reading - tare)*meterFsd)/
full;
}
http://code.google.com/p/tinkerit/

45. “It’s getting to the
point where it’s as
easy to get involved
in this world as it
would be for you to
go home, open
Notepad, and start
writing HTML”
Matt Webb, http://schulzeandwebb.com/2007/hills/slides/?p=47

46. Go see Matt Jones and Tom Coates and they will tell you more.