Development platforms and tools: Open source hardware 2009 - The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009

See what open source hardware projects in 2009.

How to select a ferrite bead?

http://hackaday.com/2009/07/06/parts-ferrite-beads/

FOSDEM pictures from Tuxbrain

http://www.tuxbrain.com/en/content/bruselas-europes-capital

Technology: Can Open Source Help Healthcare?

Technology: Can Open Source Help Healthcare?

This is the content, so I really excited again. I was crazy and wondering that if one can create an open platform for medical product development community. Analysis of these processes is necessary. By the community to create a completely open architecture different from the traditional type of establishment the business model. But subsequently faced the question is: how the flow of funds within the organization gain the trust of the community? Who is to determine the product reliability? product strategy development model evolve? product development cycle need to absolutely set the tone?Although these problems persist and fermentation. But I can think is: if in the future continue to operate through the community to demonstrate the practical: an open architecture that can complete the human health care products.

Milkymist One

After 6 months, Milkymist One has manufactured by Sharism. This is designed by Milkymist.org . They successfully demonstrated new Milkymist SOC v0.6 on Milkymist One prototype. There are more information about development, process and document recorded in Qi Hardware wiki page. Their copyleft conceipts let you can re-produce the product under CC-BY-SA & GFDL license. Amazing? Right? Yes, you can produce them from those copylef knowledge to build your own product. I support manufacturing of Milkymist One project and currently work for Sharism. This first RC1 version is now completedly produced. So far Milkymist.org now is developing the software on Spartan-6 FPGA. Hopefully we'll see a total solution of this hardware platform soon. And eveyone can re-produce them whatever they want. You can take a look on this board here.

13 Open source hardware companies making $1 Million or More

I was thinking that Future this word is not meant you should make yourself ready on something then you will meet or make it. What I am envolving on the field is  an unknown businese model or scale we meet. Looking on video below you will see that how and where those comminities are moving forward. How to make FUNny open source hardware with easy is a much exciting topic for me. I tried to find a way that can easily come through via normal live and life. But it's not easy also not difficult somehow. Start from ground, fly in the sky! 

Open source hardware $1m and beyond - foo camp east 2010 from adafruit industries on Vimeo.

You could also ref. to here.

Placement, Routing & Sourcing

I am working for one project which is an interactive VJ station. Placement, Routing & Sourcing, yeah...Although there's a lot of works, but it's funny and happy to enjoy this. This industry is very new and interesting for me. Although long long time ago I have been worked in this field before. Especially TV post-production industry, so I have seen many equipments in post production studioroom. For example the famous Avid system, video mixer, etc. I should say this industry to be as Broadcast Engeering. I had have no idea and background on electrical electronic since worked as assistant engineer in 1993 & 1994. This lets me remember my coach Simon who was came from HK. I cherished that incredible experience. Won't forget it! I am thinking that is it possible I can combine this field into my business later? Don't know. Will see.
Ref. : Global placement

太屌啦～～你無法想像的無弦數位吉他

我上網 google 了一下, 真給他找到,...請看 http://www.misadigital.com/.
弦樂器改成右手觸控指撥, 左手一樣可以撥弄合弦. 喜歡電吉他的愛樂者, 別錯過了這難得的創新產品. 不過他的設計也是基於 Linux 平台, 不過我可不欣賞他的"Patent Pending", 取之於 Linux 卻搞 Patent!!! 希望有志者, 跟他拼了, 來個 Open Source Digital Guitar.

廣邀 KiCad 愛好者

相信你收尋到這裡, 想必也是受 KiCad 的 Open Source Layout Tool 給吸引過來!!! 我們是一群堅信與邁向開發 Open Source Hardware Plate form 的 Copyleft 公司 sharism.cc, 歡迎任何想以 KiCad 來開發 Open Source Hardware 產品的朋友, 加入這個共同 layout 開發的環境.目前主要的 Project 項目有:

1, Projects List , 以北京君正 Ingenic jz47xx 32位嵌入式处理器，基于君正创新的XBurst CPU微体系架构系列硬體開發為主軸之移動多媒体產品.

2,上述 Projects lists 裡之所有基於開放原始碼延伸之各類軟體開發.

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Milkymist One Repository

Hi, If you want to do open source video & audio platform with Xilinx Spartan-6 fpga, you can visit:
http://github.com/lekernel
I used their  http://github.com/lekernel/milkymist-datasheets , so you can enter commands on your terminal as:

git clone git://github.com/lekernel/milkymist-datasheets.git

copyright & copyleft

Do you think the most interesting phenomenon in the world is that there's always two sides of viewing on things. Right and left, east and west and so on. What's the real meanings? Firstly please check it out here. And now Qi proposed that this concept with quite clear strategy which tried to achieve it. I pasted here:

Copyleft Hardware

"Qi Hardware is copyleft hardware. Our mission, provide free software developers with stable, mass market quality hardware that they can develop compelling end user applications on. I’ll contrast this with some efforts we’ve witnessed in the past where the hardware was not stable and not consumer ready. The openness of that hardware could not overcome the problems of instability, and software development floundering in the quicksand of changing hardware. At Qi the hardware designs are selected because they are stable and shipping in mass quantities and because they can be opened and safeguarded for free software development. In some cases the hardware designs already run some version of a Linux kernel, but the kernel is outdated and reprogramming the device to other purposes is complicated. We make that task easy. Our key commitment is delivering stable, working, high quality hardware to free software developers. With that firm foundation software developers can focus on making insanely great end user applications.
Our process starts by finding shipping hardware that can be opened. We work with manufacturers throughout Asia and either source hardware that can easily be opened or work with them to engineer open versions. Our hardware engineering efforts are focused on documenting these designs, publishing them under copyleft licenses, and then fostering a collaborative community effort to improve the designs. This engineering effort will utilize free software tools such as KiCAD and HeeksCAD, and copyleft the complete electrical and mechanical design.
Copyleft hardware is hardware with a future. In a proprietary system the end user is at the mercy of product life cycle. In the proprietary world there is a scheduled end of life — EOL. At that date software support ends; the hardware roadmap hits the wall. With copyleft hardware there is no EOL. The design is always open for enhancement and extension; and, with GPL software running on the hardware, end users always have the freedom to support themselves and each other. The roadmap for hardware is open. Because the designs are copyleft any engineer with an idea can create a new design, but only those willing to share back the design can take advantage of it. At Qi our roadmap philosophy will be simple — add capability in an incremental fashion. This ensures a focused software development effort."
You can also see the translation in Chinese version here.
I do really look forward to seeing how this strategy will help people to apply for their own ideas to be implemented even to be entered any market.

Qi-hardware Inc.

I'd like to introduce an interesting company qi-hardware.com . I do really want to thank my ex-colleagues here:

Wolfgang who was my direct boss in openmoko. He has the same style as mine I think, but I never told him.

Tully who was my most funny colleagues in openmoko. He always has a crazy or an incredible idea came out to share. Like he established this Samurai Circuits which is layout web company allowed you can get on-line quotation and short time layout.