Open-source hardware

You can produce something because plans are open, and you have the know-how to actually produce it.

Now, um, if you wanna go a little bit down the rabbit hole more, um, we ju- f- by the way, we just got our first open source hardware association certification actually on the house, the house that we just sold.

It's a full open design.

You can download the blueprints, start your own business, make 100K a pop net if you have the skills, okay? [laughs] So y- you gotta have some s- skills.

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However, on the negative side, the open source foundation that built this hobby in the first place has been severely, perhaps permanently fractured.

Josef Prusa himself recently published a rather somber essay definitively titled Open Hardware and 3D Printing is Dead.

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But if you deeply care about true software ownership, privacy, and repairing your own machine, you should look toward a company like Prusa.

There's a new urgency to monitor, regulate, or at least make transparent these automated actors as they multiply and have increasingly real-world impacts.

In the open hardware community, October's also about hands-on action, tinkering, learning, and sharing projects.

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[on-hold music] Welcome to Engelberg Center Live, a collection of audio from events held by the Engelberg Center on Innovation, Law, and Policy at NYU Law.

This episode features audio from the Open Hardware Lightning Talk at Open at UNGA eighty-one, A Conversation on Collaboration.

It was recorded on September twenty-first, twenty twenty-six.

All right, so I'm Michael Weinberg.

And electronics are fun, electronics are great.

Microcontrollers, uh, all sorts of servos, uh, LEDs, you know, whatever you, whatever, whatever you want.

But, um, if it has atoms and it is open, and it is openly licensed, it is open hardware.

And so we've got, uh, open camping equipment, we've got open perfume, we've got open jewelry, we've got all sorts of open things.

Open Science, wie wir das meistens nur nennen und vereinigt daneben Open Access, Open Data und jetzt Open Source.

Auch noch weitere Konzepte wie Open Hardware und in den sogenannten Open Science Pillars von der UNESCO sind diese vier Sachen, die ich eben genannt habe, aber eben auch nur einer von insgesamt vier Teilen des Openness-Konzeptes.

Ja, das ist auch das, worauf ich mich oder wir uns größtenteils erst mal fokussieren.

Insofern ist Forschungssoftware zu gewissen Teilen offen zugänglich, aber eben auch mit entsprechenden Lizenzen ausgestattet.