1. Open
Hardware
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2. Overview
Open Hardware
OS | OSS | FOSS | OSH
Industrial Revolution
Desktop Manufacturing - new Industrial Revolution
Maker Businesses are scaling up
Mainstream Businesses are going open

3. What is OSH
● Publicly available Hardware design (mechanical
drawings, schematics, bills of material, PCB layout
data, gerber plots, firmware)
● “Open source hardware is hardware whose design
is made publicly available so that anyone can
study, modify, distribute, make, and sell the design
or hardware based on that design. The hardware’s
source, the design from which it is made, is
available in the preferred format for making
modifications to it.”
● http://www.oshwa.org/

4. OH Summit - a Hacker congregation
● Since 2010 : www.oshwa.org
● Annual conference organized by OSHWA
and the world’s first comprehensive
conference on open hardware
● Electronics, mechanics, digital fabrication,
fashion technology, education,
manufacturing, design, business, law . . . .
● Talks, Demos, Posters

5. Maker Spaces
● a.k.a Hacker Space, FabLab. . .
● A Makerspace is a community-operated
workspace where people with common
interests, often in computers, technology,
science, digital art or electronic art, can
meet, socialise and/or collaborate.

6. OS | OSS | FOSS | OSH
● The concept of Open Software/Open Source
Software seems easier to understand.
● Open Hardware, on the other hand, not so
much.

7. Independent Designers v/s
Big Manufacturing
● People with bright product ideas usually
found it difficult to capitalize on those ideas
● Big businesses have captive design teams
or contract design bureaus
● It’s impossible to retain control on your
design if/once you strike a deal with big
business
● Small time makers found it difficult /
impossible to prototype their ideas.

8. The New Maker Industrial
Revolution...
...gives us instant access to knowledge, materials, tools
and prototyping as well as production facilities.
For the first time in history,
if you can design it,
you can build it.

9. Rapid Prototyping
● Use open tools for open hardware
● Generate digital files which can be used to build
prototypes using several rapid prototyping techniques.
o Electronics
 EDA (electronics design automation)
o Mechanical
 CAD
o Subtractive machining - CNC, EDM/Spark, regular
machines (Lathes, Drills etc)
o Additive manufacturing - 3D printing
o Profiling - Laser / Water jet / Wire Cut
o 3D scanning

10. Chris Anderson,
3D Robotics co-founder
“ The past 10 years have been about
discovering new ways to create, invent and
work together on the web.
The next 10 years will be about applying
those lessons to the real world”
from “MAKERS - The new industrial revolution”

11. Novena Open Laptop
● Completely open source HW/SW computing platform
● Freescale Quadcore A9 @ 1.2GHz
● Spartan FPGS with high speed GPIO’s
● “No NDA” , comes with manuals AND schematics.
● HW / SW source on Github
● Stock Linux kernel with Debian distro.
● http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main
_Page
● https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-
laptop

12. Parallax Propeller 1
● Propeller 1 P8X32A Released as Open Source Design
● The Propeller 1 (P8X32A) is now a 100% open
multicore microcontroller, including all of the hardware
and tools:
o Verilog code,
o Spin interpreter,
o PropellerIDE and SimpleIDE programming tools,
o Compilers.
● The Propeller 1 may be the most open chip in its class.
● http://www.parallax.com/microcontrollers/propeller-1-
open-source

13. Toyota Urban Utility (U2)
● The concept car’s form is influenced by the maker faire,
civil lifestyle trends.
● Idea source is do-it-yourself movement
● Vehicle elements reflect the behavior and needs of an
entrepreneur
● With features such as; the retractable roof, the
transforming foldable tailgate/ramp and the versatile rail
system that enables interior customization.
● Traditionally, the Auto industry has been one of the
most closed-source, but not for long now.
● http://www.designboom.com/technology/toyota-urban-
utility-u2-maker-faire-09-10-2014/

14. GE Firstbuild Green Bean
● FirstBuild™, Green Bean is the first-of-its-kind, open-
source maker module that enables you to hack into and
create your own appliance controls for select GE
appliances through a software development kit.
● In a game-changing move, GE is lifting the curtain and
granting tinkerers and programmers access to the
microcomputer inside specific GE appliances so that
anyone can build apps to customize and control them.
● http://pressroom.geappliances.com/news/new-maker-
module-hacks-into-ge-appliances-to-cook-up-innovation
● https://firstbuild.com/mylescaley/greenbean-maker-
module/

15. summing up….
● Open Source Hardware let’s you truly “own” the
hardware you buy.
● Unlike closed source, proprietary hardware which you
don’t own despite paying for it.

16. Thanks..
Anool Mahidharia
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