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