MEP EP#298: Has Open Source Hardware Run Its Course?

MEP EP#298: Has Open Source Hardware Run Its Course?

• Benjamin Heckendorn
  
  
  
  • An electronics hacking entertainment guru
  
  
  • Former host of Element 14’s “ The Ben Heck Show”
  
  
  
  


• Chris Kraft
  
  
  
  • A tinkerer currently working as a software engineer in the financial services industry
  
  
  • Extensive background in 3d printing and building anything that seems interesting
  
  
  
  


• Previous Podcasts with Ben and Chris
  
  
  • MEP EP#23: Interview with Ben Heck of The Ben Heck Show
  
  
  • MEP EP#75: Does the Simulation Match the Reality?
  
  
  • MEP EP #153: Discrete Atomic Luffa Control
  
  
  • MEP EP #167: BenHeck and the PinoTaur
  
  
  
  


• Has Open Source Hardware Run It's Course?


• A google search of “open hardware” or “open source hardware” yields one of two results
  
  
  • A definition of OSHW
  
  
  • A lot of requests for is there an open source XYZ?
  
  
  
  


• 10 commercially successful open source hardware projects in 2013


• Top Open-Source Hardware Websites and Community in 2019


• E3D’s no-nonsense approach to intellectual property