Publishing date: 2019-07-29
Published on: Journal of Open Hardware
summary: Increasing maturation and dissemination of easy-to-use and affordable means of digital production (e.g. 3D printing), access to these in makerspaces and FabLabs as well as powerful tools and online platforms for virtual and collaborative product design enabled the highly efficient and innovative mode of open source to spill over from software to hardware.
Publishing date: 2017-09-05
Published on: Journal of Open Hardware
summary: Based on analysis of public documentation of 132 products, this paper provides an overview of how practitioners tend to interpret the concept of open source hardware.
Publishing date: 2017-03-21
Published on: Journal of Open Hardware
summary: The rise of Free and Open Source models for software development has catalyzed the growth of Free and Open Source hardware (also known as “Libre Hardware”).