General design procedure for free and open-source hardware for scientific equipment
A discussion of the key points you should consider when creating a piece of open source hardware.
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About Open Source
Key Events in Open-Source Additive Manufacturing
Introduction The RepRap Project In 2009, Dr. Adrian Bowyer and his students published “RepRap – The Replicating Rapid Prototyper.” which detailed an Open Source, unpatended, FDM 3D Printer with plans made freely available. By no coincidence, Scott Crump’s patent on FDM expired in 2009. The manuscript is an interesting read, especially some of the backing […]
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How Much Patents & Copyrights Take From Your Wallet
Video: Transcript: I read a book a few months ago called “Who owns this Sentence: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs” which painted a good picture of the evolution of copyright and IP laws. Near the end of the book, I read something pretty staggering about how much intellectual property costs the average American. The […]
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