http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4/2008/12/27/make-blog-open-source-hardware-2008-the-definitive-guide-to-open-source-hardware-projects-in-2008/ making your ideas real.... Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:05:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4/2008/12/27/make-blog-open-source-hardware-2008-the-definitive-guide-to-open-source-hardware-projects-in-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-159 bnitz Sat, 23 May 2009 01:33:11 +0000 http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4/?p=343#comment-159 I think what finally renewed my interest in (open)hardware is the feeling of being boxed in by consumer devices. I started thinking back to all of the things I've made trivial, but necessary mods to, not the least of which was Ginnie's herculean efforts to silence or reduce the dB level of every screaming, bleeping toy that crosses our threshold. Now that DRM is in everything from cars to home AV equipment to toys (Nintendo DSi has region codes for goodness sake!) They're driving some of us to roll our own solutions in the same way that Microsoft's iron-fisted grip on the PC industry over the past few decades fueled Linux, Java and the OpenSource software movement. I think what finally renewed my interest in (open)hardware is the feeling of being boxed in by consumer devices. I started thinking back to all of the things I’ve made trivial, but necessary mods to, not the least of which was Ginnie’s herculean efforts to silence or reduce the dB level of every screaming, bleeping toy that crosses our threshold. Now that DRM is in everything from cars to home AV equipment to toys (Nintendo DSi has region codes for goodness sake!) They’re driving some of us to roll our own solutions in the same way that Microsoft’s iron-fisted grip on the PC industry over the past few decades fueled Linux, Java and the OpenSource software movement.

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