Entrepreneurship and technology development tends to select the path to the smallest resistance to achieve the goal. In electronic technologies, open source hardware is the smallestive path; now, open source hardware will be put into commercial use and support it, just as the open source software is supported in commercial, like Linux in embedded applications, Apache network server application and Android operating system.
In embedded design, commercial open source software is used as a basis. The product is based on OSS (open source software), but then the development of the operating system is not always shared or shared, but because the product wants to get the market advantage, the sharing time is postponed. OSHW (open source hardware) looks good because Open Source has proven to be a model, born in the academic circles, cultivated social ability, sharing and openness through the Network Forum. OSHW provides fairly reliable support by providing online documents to help designers (usually foreign pedestrians can also develop) and provide considerable support through selfless volunteers. But OSHW is conducive to the side of the human society and is also unfavorable.
OSS has a wide range of business benefits. Android This operating system allows mobile phone hardware manufacturers such as Samsung or HTC to reinvent a system, which has a similar UI on all platforms, so users do not need to re-learn the operating system on the new device. And there is no authorization fee, so the Android can sell a lower price. Mobile phone manufacturers have acquired huge benefits from the Android system, and many "volunteers" becomes a valid employee in this mature open source project.
Semiconductor Manufacturing Chamber pays or develop volunteers to develop and contribute to open source hardware projects using their processors. They still take this way for embedded Linux, because a processor is running, it is nothing, and linux is free. With OSHW development, compilation modules will also be free (including Shields, Capes, Booster Packs, and other physical and technology modular expansion).
Electronic enthusiasts (or nerd) have been committed to developing DIY projects since the 1940s, like a Hs tool box. In the 1970s, these tools launched the advertisement after the back of the magazine. These nerds are traded and sold in the flea market, as well as exchange ideas. This community has developed to include a very broad fan and the online forum and similar activities like SXSW or Wicker Carnival.
OSHW began in the academic world. For example, Arduino and Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Part) are invented in order to embed hardware teaching, mainly because the average person rarely get embedded hardware, but the software is the opposite. In order to improve the hardware, "modern" OSHW has become an intervening education method. In the past, the Heis suite tools were rare.
Different types of integration
High sets of semiconductor chips have provided an outgoing-form solution, especially after the test software stack can be provided. However, bottlenecks are still difficult to provide entry documentation or most of ordinary people are difficult to get programs. In this regard, any company does not have enough manpower to provide professional help to make it easy to get shortcuts. OSHW not only provides a document that provides a line of travel, but also supports forums. OSHW uses the Internet in these forums, including sharing experience, information, and chips. It pays more attention to the social benefits of the Internet in business model. These have been at least one board or the person who has completed one or two projects, which enables them to guide others, informal improvement documents, identify errors. Propose a repair suggestion. When the solution is shared, it is also worth it even if it takes a few hours.
Revelation of wheel patents
Patent protection is a great idea to protect the results of these efforts and establish a non-free concept. The patent of the wheel is invented by approximately 3500 BC. If it is still valid, the patent must expire before it is destructive to commercial development and technology. This inconspicuous "wheel" can be comparable to a foundation building module today. The module should not be protected, or it is protected than the current development of technology. Patented hooligans will further promote or extend reform. However, open source is like a wheel like a wheel. The open source license is anti-patented, or is a patented vaccine. No wonder open source in the development of the Internet and the revolution of the mobile phone in the past and now a catalyst. At present, open source is closely related to our lives like wheels.
However, due to the limitations of patents and proprietary processors, opportunistic semiconductor companies will dominate the future of OSHW. OSHW will be determined by a strong creativity and initial manufacturer community, aware of the academic circles, and selflessness in human nature to determine its future. Find more medical related projects and unbound experts try to solve problems such as low cost, open source electrocardiogram and low cost infusion pumps.
OSHW also changes with the market trend and low cost of the drive processor. Low costs can break low-end barriers because hardware cannot share freely like code. But OSHW can reach the field that cannot arrive in traditional business model, so that we have seen unheseched areas, including public welfare fields, medical and education. Further commercial expansion to remote, such as fashion and art, DIY is an electronic injection creativity, which is difficult to achieve through the Heans suite. Next, we will see entrepreneurs use OSHW and share their improvements after they will improve.
Semiconductor manufacturers have shown full interest in numerous health and fashion sectors such as wearable technology. Fashion can bring huge sales, or it seems simple and convenient, but it has become an indispensable thing in life. For example: mobile phones and cameras ..... who needs them? But they turn from a simple call tool into a barcode reader to an important social report tool; capture the news of international atrocities. Smartphone is a face recognition tool, identifying, and retrieving system (which I am parked on the street?) Is also a classification management tool in a disaster and can capture a meeting note from a white board.
I have to know how far I think is now, and Arduino is used to make a 3D printer called RePrap (www.reprap.org). For 3D objects to use 3 D printers, there are some incredible creative projects and open source files. One day, your flat furniture will have no screws, only one link (3D printing screw file)
OSHW, is an open source model, a framework agreement for sharing ideas, so a combination of many different channels such as business, individuals, artist information, and users and contributors come from multiple major and experience ... All are applied to electronic hardware. OSHW provides an accessible factor that makes non-technical personnel have confidence-related and created (not only students). This is a novelty, an electronic democracy. Successful OSHW project still maintains the style of the college, in order to express the accessibility target of the invitation to learn embedded hardware.
Intel has recently released the Galileo platform, and its processor is suitable for wearable electronic equipment, small, low cost, and storage resources. Looking here for OSHW development, including more projects involving ordinary computers, or constitute an IoT. The Internet of Things can include any objects communicating through the network, providing more effective and convenient services for daily lives, such as cloud printers. An engineering using Raspberry Pi and Google Cloud Platform - Yun print allows you to print from any connection to mobile device applications without a special print driver. Therefore, you can print through a smartphone or a tablet. Android 4.4kit kat will include Google Cloud print as a print service pre-installation.
Therefore, where is the future of open source hardware? This looks obvious, but the future will bring more open source projects to further activate the current technology. Looking for more medical related OSHW projects to solve problems, such as providing relatively low costs, open source ECG and infusion pumps for poor areas. Find more 3D prints and home creation of open source files for 3D objects.
One day in the future, there is a label on the clothes, which indicates the 3D print link of the button. When you are in the food grocery store. You can tell Google glasses to print your own mathematics homework through cloud printing. You will pay your online printed program and documentation fees online.
OSHW and Internet of Things will be seamlessly integrated into our lives. In 1970, some people predicted that we will let the library book in a certain day returns to the original position, this idea is that the heavens, if not actually impossible. However, the current digital books have been in the e-reader, we may now have no flight, but the car can now safely drive, increase the flight of the flight to the day (although it is now the most worrying is no infrastructure to manage it. )
Open source has made great progress. Open source hardware can be applied to any field, so you can also get involved in many fields.
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