Open source hardware projects have struggled to gain the mass audience that popular open source software projects have. This may not matter.

Open source hardware projects have struggled to gain the mass audience that popular open source software projects have. This may not matter.

Is open source hardware a thing? No, I’m not asking whether open source hardware projects exist. Of course they do, whether high-profile projects like Open Compute (from Facebook) or lower-profile projects like the Homebrew D-STAR Radio (for amateur radio enthusiasts). No, what I mean is, have any open source hardware projects taken off similar to Kubernetes, Apache […]

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