time ago I wrote an article
on self-built house: far from being a joke, but it was a very serious issue on the increasingly common practice of working groups also meet in order to build such a thing as home, while having the security of having a house without actually being cheated, have contracted a loan to build independently, save on manpower.
As a subscriber to the podcast of the radio program
Novalab24 of 24
Radio, I heard the program yesterday on 'open source hardware , a subject which I had already I had heard and read about, mostly for what concerns the computer science and logic boards. I never thought there would have been the biggest projects of a PC built with a similar approach.
But what is open source? 
: generally, in the vulgate common with this term s'intendeno computer programs and free
born to the Linux environment. Vision, this is wrong and limited, often not corresponding to reality. To Open Source (
literally "open source"
) was intended originally that software which was also distributed with the source files the original list that had generated the code distribution. The reason why doing such a thing is almost philosophical
sources and if I want to improve the software or adapt it to my needs I can do . Obviously this idea generated advantages and disadvantages, especially for conferring nature of the works and gave rise to all that vast and complex world that today is indeed united under this common condition. A world based on public licenses that allow you to link its name and that of your company to a project; a world that has created its own peculiar system of bussiness , based on the very concept of induced , but who had the ability to give rise to real corporations.
Yes, because with the Open Source
you can earn, and even a lot, so that today names like Red Hat , Novell or Sun Microsystem is able to know them a bit 'all. Open Source believed big names like IBM , Apple and even Microsoft . Many websites in the world are based on Open Source platforms in whole or in part, from the
CMS Server to mail . Not to mention the browser with which they visit which most often is seprate FireFox. Wrapped these products are free because they get money in other ways or because their purpose is to create induced and induced them to survive is by making continuous updates. An example is precisely the CMS : they can only survive by subsidies and enhanced through the work of those developers who then will charge its clients to install and maintain. ... And the hardware? years on the Internet it is argued that the ownership of patents on inventions due to higher prices of computer components: the constant legal battles that arise whenever international that a new product is introduced on the market are a sign of a problem that leads to a limitation in the ability to design and develop new products and new technologies released from the body of the mark, the major industry. The world of software and Internet in particular has shown that there is no need to be afraid to freely distribute an idea or a project: not only did not renounce the bussiness, but innovation is created, go to other minds find ways to improve, creating a melting pot of ideas that lead to a more modern product, innovative, powerful and well suited to solve problems in everyday life. You can do something similar with the hardware, the physical object, solid?
Someone has said yes, thinking that in the end, the objects come from the projects and plans are documents ( paper or digital, it makes no difference ), has well-designed to distribute for free on Internet projects Some inventions.
The trend was such that if initially we started with logic boards like Arduino project
, and after a while you get to
modular units and a mobile phone now, the same principle as the projects are distributed cars.
Cars philosophically correct, of course, ecological, economic, environmentally sustainable and open source!
Small and ecological
On the Internet there are two models: the first, reported by 24 Novalab is Riversimple , U.S. plans for a minicar hydrogen engine with very small . Do not expect anything that it is bad, as most of these cars. About the project focuses on the technology and leave out the frills. Assumes that small means cheap because made little material . Conceptually, it is also true, and then, because the principle of the Open Source project, to fix it aesthetic, does not take much, just and only want to write a nice e-mail (in English
) and you will see that this type of contribution will be welcome. Meanwhile it is interesting to see what they managed to do it in two, and relying on a online community
. Why is the speech community
= solution that is essential in such projects: it is a project and then try to involve other
via the Internet to make contributions to solving problems. The engineer that give you a tip, the mechanic who leaves a tip, the electrician that will explain the pattern of a plant, the chemical that elucidates the processes for using hydrogen as fuel. All joined together with a common purpose, starting from the crazy idea some two American boys.
Then there's the "scientific" approach, university typical of us Europeans, who imbued dottologia , just put in the middle of the professoroni here is another project so the flavor less do- it-yourself, c, mm, n ( pronounced "common", meaning "common, common, ordinary" English ). Project created by a consortium of Dutch universities, which involves students, scientists, researchers and ordinary Internet users, but used to get feedbacks on the choices made and the result is a electric concept car the size a Smart , but she too ugly (the Riversimple was ugly, but it had the justification of the model done in scratch ... but here you see all the styles of the two volumes of the Renault Kangoo
emule).
Okay, Americans, of course, could not fail to one of the basic tenets of their culture: we like big ( stains! That understood? )! Here is an open source project car but to put it a bit 'you pay, about $ 35,000 : figure justified by the fact that it is anything but environmentally friendly and is a super off-road monster to compete with the Cayenne. It's called Rally Fighter ( sborona car, name sborone ...) and is designed entirely by a small company, Local Motors. And in Italy? But do you really believe that in our part can download a constructive plan to assemble a car and at home following a tutorial and then circulate? But let me pleasure! Do not even think about it! And the engine? And the pollution? And road safety? And the FIAT? What do you say? The first two are electric? C'avete right! And the ENEL? No. We no cars open source ... but a means of transport based on this new concept of distribution project there! Do not you expected, huh?! born, of course, the academic, the result of a research university and is the bike to water.
What do you say? How is that stuff?
No. .. no ... is not 'na bike that if you move with the water so nun rides, lazy bad that you arthro nun! 
Seeing what seems to think well ... that is what I mean, I would ennoble, but in essence this is what you see in the picture ...
Seeing what seems to think well ... that is what I mean, I would ennoble, but in essence this is what you see in the picture ... a pedalo. Okay by ... and do not do so ... center that I? What awaits you? Thank God Almighty that this er er convent offers you, right? Ecological
is ecological, nun no doubt ...
not emit polluting gases, unless you eat heavy, but in summer, the heat, I do not think there cibiate of beans with pork rind on the beach ...
then do vobis
... congratulations if you can ... that portentous your gut. In sum
! Here is a matter of principle! And the Prince is that The Open Waterbike
, though it is a pedal car, is a project for a transportation open source! And do not insult!
I leave you with a nice link, Harkopen , where you'll find all the open source hardware projects that more you like. Enjoy.
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