Elon Musk, US Electric Vehicle Dafrior, announced that the company will open a patent in June 2014; many people think that Tesla bold move means that a new era started, and the open source public code. Musk said in a blog article: "The leadership status of technology is not defined by patents. From history, it is just against the defensive small means for specific competitors; a company can attract and motivate the world's best engineers. Can determine its leadership. "
Coincidentally, in front of the opening of the CES Consumer Electronics Exhibition in 2015, Toyota announced that 5,680 technical patents related to hydrogen fuel cells around the world, including 1970 techniques of Toyota's latest hydrogen fuel cell vehicle Mirai. Anyone who uses these patents does not need to pay any fees. The patented pool covers fuel cell packages, high pressure hydrogen box, software control system, and industrial processes that supply hydrogen from the production of hydrogen.
These two things have been put together, causing the author's thinking about opening source hardware and promoting science and technology evolution:
Perhaps Musk's move is not so shocking - industry has more and more people have interested in open source (Open Source), even actively involved, including dead-lifting hardware DIY community, and software masters. Although there is no much employer now seeks top talent for most of the "Hackathon" is the topic of open source design cases, there are some well-known industry people such as Adafruit Industries (open source hardware design tools for The founder's Limor Fried is the enthusiasm for open source to successfully transform into a revenue million US dollars.
The development case in the open source area is not just because of its feasibility, salesability is exciting, they are truly helpful to innovation; for promoting science and technology growing interest and common goals, incentive Europe Nuclear Research Institutions CERN established an open source hardware repository and Open Hardware license. In addition, other open source hardware organizations also hopes to encourage people with more different backgrounds to participate in innovation.
CERN's open source hardware authorization clause (referred to as OHL or CERN OHL) is specially applied in an open source hardware development. Cern's Javier Serrano said that open source software and hardware development results are usually from DIY enthusiasts and community cooperation, often limited scale; while large-scale complex developments, supporters behind companies are companies or institutions like Cern, An open hardware authorization terms for specific application purposes will be required.
The following introduces several well-known open source hardware development projects:
1. The Papilio One development platform is based on Xilinx's Spartan 3e FPGA, which is applied to the Laser-Cooled Trapped Ion Experiments.
PAPILIO One Open Source Development Platform
Second, Axion's open source hardware and free software digital film capturing machine (Digital Cinema Camera) is a project using Cern Ohl. In the homemade movie community, the application of the device is, in addition to parity, it is actually more
Axiom open source hardware, free digital movie camera
Third, another large open source hardware project is open source brain-computer interface, BCI. BCI is not a new concept, covering a variety of technologies including functional nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI), artificial cochlear implant, EEG, etc., innovators are improved in existing design. Although this type of application technology is still very expensive, there will be an opportunity to become more popular through open source hardware in the future.
Open source brain interface
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