1 00:00:01,818 --> 00:00:04,818 Um, hello, welcome. 2 00:00:04,818 --> 00:00:06,148 I was just going to kick this off 3 00:00:06,148 --> 00:00:07,966 by saying big ups to Ayah and Alicia! 4 00:00:07,966 --> 00:00:15,682 [applause] 5 00:00:15,682 --> 00:00:17,906 OK, so, a really quick introduction. 6 00:00:17,906 --> 00:00:19,908 I'm Limor Fried, I run Adafruit Industries 7 00:00:19,908 --> 00:00:21,830 which is in downtown Manhatten 8 00:00:21,830 --> 00:00:23,850 so I got to take the 7 here. 9 00:00:23,850 --> 00:00:25,912 And um I've been doing open source hardware 10 00:00:25,912 --> 00:00:29,346 and selling it as part of this business since 2006 11 00:00:29,346 --> 00:00:30,692 and I've got really good news 12 00:00:30,692 --> 00:00:31,837 all of you who've heard me talk 13 00:00:31,837 --> 00:00:34,254 I'm actually not going to talk about my business. 14 00:00:34,254 --> 00:00:35,983 Um, because Ayah and Alicia said 15 00:00:35,983 --> 00:00:41,562 "hey we want, you know, pragmatic, hobbyist, you know, solutions-based driven stuff" 16 00:00:41,562 --> 00:00:42,585 and I was like OK you know I'm not going to 17 00:00:42,585 --> 00:00:45,778 talk about all the details of shipping, manufacturing 18 00:00:45,778 --> 00:00:48,116 and licensing and all that stuff. 19 00:00:48,116 --> 00:00:49,751 I'm actually going to talk about 20 00:00:49,751 --> 00:00:52,643 "Why Do Open Source Hardware?" 21 00:00:52,643 --> 00:00:54,798 and specifically why I did open source hardware 22 00:00:54,798 --> 00:00:56,292 and ah, maybe some of the reasons why 23 00:00:56,292 --> 00:00:58,030 you may want to do open source hardware 24 00:00:58,030 --> 00:01:00,131 if you don't. 25 00:01:00,131 --> 00:01:02,297 Um so OK, so we're going to rewind 26 00:01:02,297 --> 00:01:04,474 back to 2002 and 2003 27 00:01:04,474 --> 00:01:06,262 we're going to stop at 2006. 28 00:01:06,262 --> 00:01:09,578 So it's all going to be history. 29 00:01:09,578 --> 00:01:12,591 So, you know, I grew up in Boston and, uh, 30 00:01:12,591 --> 00:01:14,670 Boston is a bit of a sea of you know, the FSF, 31 00:01:14,670 --> 00:01:16,582 the EFF used to be there too. 32 00:01:16,582 --> 00:01:19,135 So there was a lot of like, you know, Linux-y, 33 00:01:19,135 --> 00:01:20,794 BSD people hanging out there 34 00:01:20,794 --> 00:01:21,810 and I went to MIT. 35 00:01:21,810 --> 00:01:24,475 So there was a culture of open source software. 36 00:01:24,475 --> 00:01:25,391 So it was sort of assumed that if you were 37 00:01:25,391 --> 00:01:26,385 going to work on something 38 00:01:26,385 --> 00:01:28,120 it would be an open source software project, 39 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:29,732 you know install Linux, you were running it, 40 00:01:29,732 --> 00:01:31,605 it was totally cool and Microsoft sucked. 41 00:01:31,605 --> 00:01:35,106 And so when I started moving away from doing software 42 00:01:35,106 --> 00:01:37,114 and doing more electronics 43 00:01:37,114 --> 00:01:38,295 um, there were sort of 44 00:01:38,295 --> 00:01:40,262 I had this uh you know core of like 45 00:01:40,262 --> 00:01:41,430 "oh, open source software is good, 46 00:01:41,430 --> 00:01:42,870 and I've seen the good it does." 47 00:01:42,870 --> 00:01:44,971 And so I was definitely inspired by that. 48 00:01:44,971 --> 00:01:47,632 So it's not like I came up with open source hardware 49 00:01:47,632 --> 00:01:48,295 out of nowhere. 50 00:01:48,295 --> 00:01:50,690 It's a derivative of open source software. 51 00:01:50,690 --> 00:01:53,342 And uh what I would do 52 00:01:53,342 --> 00:01:55,036 when I was learning electronics 53 00:01:55,036 --> 00:01:57,460 is that I would release stuff 54 00:01:57,460 --> 00:01:59,737 like these are some earlier projects that I did 55 00:01:59,737 --> 00:02:01,565 some development boards and stuff 56 00:02:01,565 --> 00:02:02,882 when I was in school 57 00:02:02,882 --> 00:02:05,023 and I would release you know 58 00:02:05,023 --> 00:02:06,381 they would have software and firmware 59 00:02:06,381 --> 00:02:07,687 and I would release the software and firmware 60 00:02:07,687 --> 00:02:11,016 under like GPL or MIT or BSD license or anything 61 00:02:11,016 --> 00:02:12,697 or whatever the popular license of the time was. 62 00:02:12,697 --> 00:02:14,576 But I would put the files up 63 00:02:14,576 --> 00:02:16,419 and I would say just ah you know 64 00:02:16,419 --> 00:02:18,074 "these are the Eagle CAD files 65 00:02:18,074 --> 00:02:18,951 and the Grouper files 66 00:02:18,951 --> 00:02:20,479 and I guess do what you want with them." 67 00:02:20,479 --> 00:02:23,195 But like the idea that you could even license them 68 00:02:23,195 --> 00:02:24,375 actually I had no idea 69 00:02:24,375 --> 00:02:25,963 I didn't know about like mass works 70 00:02:25,963 --> 00:02:28,401 or what was copyright or schematic copyright 71 00:02:28,401 --> 00:02:29,926 or is it patented or what? 72 00:02:29,926 --> 00:02:31,128 So I just put it up and I said 73 00:02:31,128 --> 00:02:32,977 "you know, whatever, you can enjoy it yourself." 74 00:02:32,977 --> 00:02:34,998 So for example 75 00:02:34,998 --> 00:02:38,174 and I'm going to go through specific examples of projects 76 00:02:38,174 --> 00:02:39,726 and why I open sourced them 77 00:02:39,726 --> 00:02:43,726 or why I published them.