0:00:01.818,0:00:04.818 Um, hello, welcome. 0:00:04.818,0:00:06.148 I was just going to kick this off 0:00:06.148,0:00:07.966 by saying big ups to Ayah and Alicia! 0:00:07.966,0:00:15.682 [applause] 0:00:15.682,0:00:17.906 OK, so, a really quick introduction. 0:00:17.906,0:00:19.908 I'm Limor Fried, I run Adafruit Industries 0:00:19.908,0:00:21.830 which is in downtown Manhatten 0:00:21.830,0:00:23.850 so I got to take the 7 here. 0:00:23.850,0:00:25.912 And um I've been doing open source hardware 0:00:25.912,0:00:29.346 and selling it as part of this business since 2006 0:00:29.346,0:00:30.692 and I've got really good news 0:00:30.692,0:00:31.837 all of you who've heard me talk 0:00:31.837,0:00:34.254 I'm actually not going to talk about my business. 0:00:34.254,0:00:35.983 Um, because Ayah and Alicia said 0:00:35.983,0:00:41.562 "hey we want, you know, pragmatic, hobbyist, you know, solutions-based driven stuff" 0:00:41.562,0:00:42.585 and I was like OK you know I'm not going to 0:00:42.585,0:00:45.778 talk about all the details of shipping, manufacturing 0:00:45.778,0:00:48.116 and licensing and all that stuff. 0:00:48.116,0:00:49.751 I'm actually going to talk about 0:00:49.751,0:00:52.643 "Why Do Open Source Hardware?" 0:00:52.643,0:00:54.798 and specifically why I did open source hardware 0:00:54.798,0:00:56.292 and ah, maybe some of the reasons why 0:00:56.292,0:00:58.030 you may want to do open source hardware 0:00:58.030,0:01:00.131 if you don't. 0:01:00.131,0:01:02.297 Um so OK, so we're going to rewind 0:01:02.297,0:01:04.474 back to 2002 and 2003 0:01:04.474,0:01:06.262 we're going to stop at 2006. 0:01:06.262,0:01:09.578 So it's all going to be history. 0:01:09.578,0:01:12.591 So, you know, I grew up in Boston and, uh, 0:01:12.591,0:01:14.670 Boston is a bit of a sea of you know, the FSF, 0:01:14.670,0:01:16.582 the EFF used to be there too. 0:01:16.582,0:01:19.135 So there was a lot of like, you know, Linux-y, 0:01:19.135,0:01:20.794 BSD people hanging out there 0:01:20.794,0:01:21.810 and I went to MIT. 0:01:21.810,0:01:24.475 So there was a culture of open source software. 0:01:24.475,0:01:25.391 So it was sort of assumed that if you were 0:01:25.391,0:01:26.385 going to work on something 0:01:26.385,0:01:28.120 it would be an open source software project, 0:01:28.120,0:01:29.732 you know install Linux, you were running it, 0:01:29.732,0:01:31.605 it was totally cool and Microsoft sucked. 0:01:31.605,0:01:35.106 And so when I started moving away from doing software 0:01:35.106,0:01:37.114 and doing more electronics 0:01:37.114,0:01:38.295 um, there were sort of 0:01:38.295,0:01:40.262 I had this uh you know core of like 0:01:40.262,0:01:41.430 "oh, open source software is good, 0:01:41.430,0:01:42.870 and I've seen the good it does." 0:01:42.870,0:01:44.971 And so I was definitely inspired by that. 0:01:44.971,0:01:47.632 So it's not like I came up with open source hardware 0:01:47.632,0:01:48.295 out of nowhere. 0:01:48.295,0:01:50.690 It's a derivative of open source software. 0:01:50.690,0:01:53.342 And uh what I would do 0:01:53.342,0:01:55.036 when I was learning electronics 0:01:55.036,0:01:57.460 is that I would release stuff 0:01:57.460,0:01:59.737 like these are some earlier projects that I did 0:01:59.737,0:02:01.565 some development boards and stuff 0:02:01.565,0:02:02.882 when I was in school 0:02:02.882,0:02:05.023 and I would release you know 0:02:05.023,0:02:06.381 they would have software and firmware 0:02:06.381,0:02:07.687 and I would release the software and firmware 0:02:07.687,0:02:11.016 under like GPL or MIT or BSD license or anything 0:02:11.016,0:02:12.697 or whatever the popular license of the time was. 0:02:12.697,0:02:14.576 But I would put the files up 0:02:14.576,0:02:16.419 and I would say just ah you know 0:02:16.419,0:02:18.074 "these are the Eagle CAD files 0:02:18.074,0:02:18.951 and the Grouper files 0:02:18.951,0:02:20.479 and I guess do what you want with them." 0:02:20.479,0:02:23.195 But like the idea that you could even license them 0:02:23.195,0:02:24.375 actually I had no idea 0:02:24.375,0:02:25.963 I didn't know about like mass works 0:02:25.963,0:02:28.401 or what was copyright or schematic copyright 0:02:28.401,0:02:29.926 or is it patented or what? 0:02:29.926,0:02:31.128 So I just put it up and I said 0:02:31.128,0:02:32.977 "you know, whatever, you can enjoy it yourself." 0:02:32.977,0:02:34.998 So for example 0:02:34.998,0:02:38.174 and I'm going to go through specific examples of projects 0:02:38.174,0:02:39.726 and why I open sourced them 0:02:39.726,0:02:43.726 or why I published them.