The goal of this post is to provide a hub to discover some powerful internet resources out there.
For example here’s one I wanted to share.
- Open Source Ecology is a project for open source hardware that is significantly cheaper than retail costs. Some of the equipment include open source designs for CNC machines, windmills, tractors, plasma cutters, power supplies, motors, generators, and much more!
https://www.opensourceecology.org/
Additional Resources
- The List of Awesome: https://github.com/topics/awesome
- Library Genesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
Openstreetmaps has 10.5 million contributors and has an open license that provides more detail and has many third party apps unlike Google Maps or Apple Maps.
Hundred Rabbits is a two person collective living aboard a boat, planning for the collapse of modern technology and how we will rebuild it. They have a wonderful knowledge base about off-grid living and you can view it offline with Kiwix, a wiki reader designed for situations without internet. You can download Wikipedia, medical articles, stackexchange forums etc
https://github.com/m-labs/artiq
ARTIQ (Advanced Real-Time Infrastructure for Quantum physics)
State of the art control system for physics experiments, for example atomic clocks or ion-trap based quantum computers. Originated at NIST.
Open source and open hardware. Official way to install on Linux is via Nix package manager. Very awesome and very fun. Experiments are written in Python.
Might be a stupid question, but I’d there a GNU license equivalent to patents? Could you patent something that could be used for free, but not used by a company in a for-profit matter?
As long as you control the patent, you’re the one who determines who can make it. I’m not sure if there’s a license that provides a boilerplate version of that, but it’s certainly something you’d be allowed to do with your patent.
That doesn’t really have the same rigidity. There would be no guarantee for others that it would remain available to them as long as they adhere to those principles.
Said another way, a bad faith actor could create a patent and make it available to FOS developers, but then turn around and sell that patent to someone who will charge those same developers.
I suppose you could have a third legally binding document that stipulates the terms of use, but kinda wish it was just handled under the patent.
I love this kinda crap. “Hack the planet” and so on. Is someone working on an open source car?
I have thought about it, but the assembly process has to be extraordinary simple. I would be terrified to know that the fastener I recommended sheared, taking someone’s life.
Also, there seems to be at least two extremes in DIY. One would be the individual who understands the processes and is doing it to show their technical prowess. The other would be the individual who desperately needs the end product.
I know right? Open source hardware has so many potential benefits over commercial. Significantly decreased price, privacy, good documentation, right to repair, no conflict of interest and potentially one day performance. Imagine we have engineers from across the world improving a single computer chip design, generator design, solar panel fabrication process, or maybe even perhaps an open source fusion reactor blueprint someday in the next 20 years (pun intended).
I’m seriously considering starting something like this myself. Open source blueprints for power generation/energy storage (regular batteries, thermal sand resevior based batteries, hydro power generation), water filtration, machine tools for fabricating anything, CNC machine, plasma cutters, hand tools, etc. Basically everything you could need to live Open Source.
The problem as always is getting enough designers, engineers, and volunteers.
My Chevy bolt proudly proclaims that its dashboard UI is open source software
I imagine it follows the splash screen with “you can submit PRs to https://github.com/my-chevy/dashui.git” lol
