This document discusses assumptions for open sourcing hardware. It lists four main assumptions: 1) Platform independence using metaphors of Libre Office (available everywhere) and JSON (machine readable), 2) Complexity arising from simplicity, 3) Producing information simultaneously with physical things, and 4) Implementing circles of participation with inputs, processes, and outputs. It also provides credits and licenses for various images included.

1. picby LZ, CC-BY-SA

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@bricktick
www.larszimmermann.de

3. how to open sourcehardware?
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4. how to open sourcehardware?
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Part I:
Assumptions

5. wikis, blogs, stepby
steptt, videos, podc
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tos, odt, chat, poll
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ASSUMPTIONS
1. Platform: Independency
(a) Metaphor 1: Libre
Office
(everyone, everywhere)
(b) Metaphor 2: JSON
(machinereadable)
2.
ComplexityfromSimplicity
3. Producing Information at
thesame time as producing
Things
4. Circlesimplemented
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7. 1. Platform:
Independency
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8. 1. Platform: Independency
(a) Metaphor 1:
Libre Office
(everyone, ever
ywhere, everyti
me)
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9. 1. Platform: Independency
(b) Metaphor
2: JSON
(machinereada
ble)
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10. 2. Complexity
fromSimplicity
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11. 3.
ProducingInformat
ion at thesame
time
as producing
Things
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12. 4.
Circlesimplemen
ted
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13. ASSUMPTIONS
1. Platform: Independency
(a) Metaphor 1: Libre
Office (everyone,
everywhere)
(b) Metaphor 2: JSON
(machinereadable)
2.
ComplexityfromSimplicity
3. Producing Information at
thesame time as producing
Things
4. Circlesimplemented
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ASSUMPTIONS
1. Platform: Independency
(a) Metaphor 1: Libre
Office
(everyone, everywhere)
(b) Metaphor 2: JSON
(machinereadable)
2.
ComplexityfromSimplicity
3. Producing Information at
thesame time as producing
Things
4. Circlesimplemented
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@bricktick
www.larszimmermann.de
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16. picswithlicences
publicdomain: {1} Science_Fiction_Museum; byFawcett5; {4} Mistel_1;
byLamers Sabine; {6}
Ion_Engine_Being_Installed_in_High_Vacuum_Tank_-_GPN-2000-000597;
byNASA/William Bowles; {8} Opere_di_Galilei_-_Vol._2-87, byGalilei.
CC-BY: {10} Hypericum_perforatum_stem_cross_section;
byRolfDieterMueller. CC-BY-SA: {2}
Horizontal_laboratory_microbiology_shaker_Innova_4330-inside;
byCygaretka;{3} Spacestation_mir; byHPH; {5} Medicom_Toy_–
_Nostalgic_Future_Series_04_–_Giant_Robo_( )_–
_Back_Side; byD J Shin; {7} Leuchter; byTrautner Kunst; {9}
Thin_film_polarizer; byArnero; {11} Nearsighted_color_fringing_-
9.5_diopter_-_source_image; byDMahalko; {12} LZ; byMucha.
all pics (exc12) found on wikimedia.commons.org, thankyou
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videoby
Lars Zimmermann
www.larszimmermann.de
CC-BY-SA
Nov 2013