Open source software can now be described as a martial arts, and major network technology companies do not release the open source love. In the near future, the open source will definitely be a normal state. So the open source hardware will not step by the open source software, become the chip of major companies to attract consumers? From the current trend, it should be not difficult.
From the end of the last century to the beginning of this century, as the application in Web technology open, free stack is constantly increasing, making developers develop web-based software thresholds continue to decrease. Nowadays, most of the large-scale Internet companies are based on open source stacks, such as Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, etc., etc., etc., such as Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, etc., have created amazing big companies through open source technology.
Of course, in addition to open source software, we also saw the same signs appearing on open source hardware - labeled business prices but also popular open source hardware. Such changes help expand innovation, concentrate professional technical talents, but the R & D budget that spends in open source hardware is not less than open source software!
Currently, there is ARDUINO UNO, BEAGLEBONE and RASPBERRY PI, which is popular, representative open source hardware platforms. Take Arduino as an example, Arduino is an open source computer circuit board, which has been used by many hardware development companies, the main use is to quickly prototype design and transport hardware products. MicroView is an Arduino product with an OLED display with an OLED display. It is a future business opportunity to feel open source hardware through this product. MicroView has established its own foundation in Kickstarter, and has obtained the financing of nearly 1 million US dollars, 20 times more than expected.
Below is a concise memories of Marcus Schappi's creation process of the entire product:
1. Electronic engineers are not necessalence
Arduino removes complexity of embedded programming to provide a lot of convenience for the easy accessibility of the microcontroller platform. Before this, you may need assistance to electronics engineers and require embedded system programs to start a hardware item truly. However, it is because of the computer board like Arduino and the same iteration like MicroView saves a lot of time for hardware development, which is also due to the generation of these hardware, software developers can see software ideas in their daily life. Really reflected.
2. Arduino Alliance is growing
Arduino is no longer just a hardware developing enthusiast development tool, ARDUINO-based hardware is being used to build commercial consumer products. There is currently a significant open source hardware project to be funded on the Kickstarter platform. So far, Marcus team has raised millions of dollars in various projects from Kickstarter, which not only shows the survival capacity of open source products, but also see the market's demand for open source hardware.
3. Use the case - education
For the future direction of the product is difficult to predict, with MicroView as an example, the two obvious directions seen by Marcus are:
First, the field of education, MicroView has actually played a lot in the field of visualization, and the OLED monitors embedded in the chip can cause students to be interested in engineering design.
Second, open source hardware enthusiasts can now completely come into contact with Arduino equipment, and can expand the user's scope and reduce competitive pressure.
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