Comments on: What are the specific challenges for open hardware? https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-are-the-specific-challenges-for-open-hardware/2008/06/04 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:46:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Patrick Anderson https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-are-the-specific-challenges-for-open-hardware/2008/06/04/comment-page-1#comment-254159 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:46:51 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=1587#comment-254159 Why can the THEY collaborate to make large manufacturing possible, yet the WE cannot?

Will it never be possible to get together for our own purposes? If so, then how did/do the Capitalists organize against us?

Obviously there are groups that have organized for production in the past, and there are those that are operating even today. Why can WE not do so? What is stopping us?

]]> By: More about VIA OpenBook and different levels of openness for Open Hardware at Open Peer-to-Peer Design https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-are-the-specific-challenges-for-open-hardware/2008/06/04/comment-page-1#comment-254096 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:11:48 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=1587#comment-254096 […] here Bauwens reports an interview to members of Open Graphics Project (appeared on the Free Software […]

]]> By: Marcin https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/what-are-the-specific-challenges-for-open-hardware/2008/06/04/comment-page-1#comment-251651 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:24:44 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=1587#comment-251651 The challenge in physical hardware projects – compared to software projects – is the necessity for a physical production plant.

Present technology makes FPGAs readily available, and microcircuit fabrication is just a step away from doing it using open source, high-precision xyz tables, such as:

http://www.appropedia.org/Callooh

Certainly, the knowledge to do the microcircuit is widely accessible through open source channels.

I don’t know of the technology required for fabricating Application Specific Integrated Circuits. I would be interested in comments regarding scale analysis for this capacity – based on forward-looking predictions. It should be noted that in the forthcoming peer economy, decreasing infrastructure costs are enabled by related hardware developments – such as CEB (compressed earth block) buildings for the building the facilities themselves.

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