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Hardware: The New Open Source Driving Innovation
Tod Kurt @todbotCo-founderThingM
Fast Product Designwith OSHW
Hardware Innovation Workshop
16 May 2012, Xerox PARC
Tod E. Kurt, ThingM
Who Am I?
Who Am I?
How is Open Source Useful for
Hardware Development?
free exchange of ideasleverage the cleverness of others
But Mostly...
you save time
And, you get to work with othersAnd, it’s fun
Hardware Design Process
• Ideation / Product Design• Hardware design / Schematic & Layout• Product Visualization• Firmware & Software
Example Product:blink(1)
IdeationLook to similar devices for inspiration
Schematic & Board Layout
Explore different chips, different layouts
Choose one, or all, to get PCB fabbed
Visualization
SketchUp + EagleUp
Visualization
SketchUp + CAD import
Visualization & Usability3D printouts w/ Makerbot
Software & Firmware
not your problem
blink(1)USB pipeline
Firmware
Open devtools for many chipsets
Atmel AVR: Arduino & AVR-GCCTI MSP430: MSPGCCMicrochip PIC: SDCC
USB stacks
Open USB stacks are growing too:
V-USB (AVR/sw) LUFA (AVR/hw) 16FUSB (PIC/sw)
Dangerous Prototypes (PIC/hw)
Application APIs
Processing / JavaWxWidgets
GCCHTML5 / Node.js
Some open & cross platform toolkits:
But better to go native
What’s Difficult Still?
“Last mile” to screen & keyboard
Atoms (enclosures, etc)
The Upside
Idea to functional prototype in 2 weeks
Multiple design studies on multiple chip architectures
Manufactureable in a month
Giving Back
your
company
blog
Publish!
Get the makers on your side They’re early adopters, recommenders
Thank You
@thingm / @todbot
http://thingm.com/
http://todbot.com/blog/