A presentation on open source hardware and show you what people are doing with it.

1. Edmond Lau, July 2011
introducing
Open Source Hardware

2. WHAT IS OPEN SOURCE
HARDWARE?

3. What is Open Source Hardware?
• Open source hardware (OSHW) consists of physical artifacts of technology
designed and offered in the same manner as free and open source
software (FOSS). Open source hardware is part of the open source culture
movement and applies a like concept to a variety of components. The
term usually means that information about the hardware is easily
discerned. Hardware design (i.e. mechanical drawings, schematics, bill of
materials, PCB layout data, HDL source code and integrated circuit layout
data) in addition to the software that drives the hardware are all released
with the FOSS approach.
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware

4. HARDWARE EXAMPLES

5. Arduino
• Arduino is an open-source
electronics prototyping platform
based on flexible, easy-to-use
hardware and software. It's
intended for artists, designers,
hobbyists, and anyone interested
in creating interactive objects or
environments.
http://www.arduino.cc/

6. BeagleBoard
• The BeagleBoard is a low-power, low-
cost single-board computer produced
by Texas Instruments in association
with Digi-Key. The BeagleBoard was
designed with open source
development in mind, and as a way
of demonstrating the Texas
Instrument's OMAP3530 system-on-
a-chip. The board was developed by a
small team of TI engineers as an
educational board that could be used
in colleges around the world to teach
open source hardware and open
source software capabilities.
http://beagleboard.org/

7. Android Open Accessory Kit
• The Android 3.1 platform (also
backported to Android 2.3.4)
introduces Android Open Accessory
support, which allows external USB
hardware (an Android USB accessory)
to interact with an Android-powered
device in a special "accessory" mode.
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/adk.h
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8. Others
http://www.buglabs.net/
http://www.makershed.com/SearchResults.as
p?Cat=70
http://netduino.com/

9. REAL LIFE EXAMPLES

10. Arduino Projects
Poor man’s NFC High Speed Photography Wiimote + RC Car
RGB Door Lock UAV RFID Access Control
http://hacknmod.com/hack/top-40-arduino-projects-of-the-web/

11. Google I/O 2011 Keynote Day 1
Open Accessory Kit integrated with exercise bike, shared performance data and gamification!
Giant-sized Labyrinth
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/google-announces-android-open-accessory-standard-arduino-based/

12. Technology innovation is starting to explode
and having open-source material out there
really helps this explosion. You get students
and researchers involved and you get people
coming through and building start ups based
on open source products.
Tim Berners-Lee - World Wide Web Founder