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Hardware Freedom Day is April 20th!

fustini
fustini over 12 years ago

http://www.hfday.org/images/mightyohm.jpg

Hardware Freedom Day is a yearly celebration of Open Hardware! Every year since 2004 hundreds of teams have been celebrating Software Freedom Day, often showcasing Open Hardware in the process. At the Digital Freedom Foundation(formerly known as SFI) we thought it was about time to have a special day just for Open Hardware. So get your hackerspace in order, your team up to speed and register your event right now!

You can find if there is an event planned near you:

 

http://www.hfday.org/map/

 

or learn how to organize one if not:

 

http://wiki.hfday.org/StartGuide

 

Anyone planning to go to one or organize one?

 

cheers,

drew

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  • morgaine
    morgaine over 12 years ago in reply to johnbeetem +2
    John Beetem wrote: If FPGAs were open like many microprocessors, people who could solve this would work on it. But given that any results will be "purely academic", the kind of people who want to see something…
  • morgaine
    morgaine over 12 years ago in reply to fustini +2
    Apparently it was Culture Freedom Day yesterday. Pity that this very noble intention is only a joke in practice, as popular culture has been locked away behind corporate firewalls and "suing as a business…
  • morgaine
    morgaine over 12 years ago in reply to johnbeetem +1
    John Beetem wrote: I'm not surprised it hasn't happened. First, it couldn't have started happening until about 5 years ago when the basic FPGA patents began to expire. IMO Xilinx's 4-input LUT is great…
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  • johnbeetem
    johnbeetem over 12 years ago

    Alas, the Hardware Freedom I've wanted for decades is to be able to program FPGAs using my own tools, but the information needed to do this is locked away by the FPGA vendors.  image

     

    Oh well, maybe someone will come up with a 3D printer for microelectronics some day image

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    bprewit over 12 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

    Hate to mention this at this late date .. but 4/20 is already a symbolic date in some cultures ..

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    bprewit over 12 years ago in reply to johnbeetem

    Hate to mention this at this late date .. but 4/20 is already a symbolic date in some cultures ..

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