oshwa summit workshop on some of the challenges of oshw

President of OSHWA OHS 2014, Rome, Italy

Open Hardware Summit 2014 Gabriella Levine

• Alternative to the Patent IP structure !

• An option for sharing information !

• An attempt to proliferate innovation, quickly

OSHW: Why?

“Open source hardware is hardware whose design is made publicly available so that anyone can study, modify, distribute, make, and sell the design or hardware based on that design”.

OSHW: The Definition !

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*www.oshwa.org/definition

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USE MODIFY DISTRIBUTE

OSHW projects & companies

Electronics

Sensors

Disaster Relief

Industrial Machines

Agriculture

Digital Fabrication

Robotics

Biology

Space Exploration

Education / Retail

OSHW: Best Practices

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* http://www.oshwa.org/sharing-best-practices/

1. Provide design files !

2. Allow modification and redistribution !

4. Publish documentation

A designer must…

1. Provide attribution when distributing or manufacturing !

2. Release their product as OSHW derivatives

A designer may…

1. Imply that the device is manufactured, tested, warrantied by the original designer !

2. Make use of trademarks owned by the original designer without permission

A manufacturer must not…

Use the Logo

How to create OSHW

Six Elements of OSHW Design

1. Hardware / mechanical designs

Six Elements of OSHW Design

2. Electronic schematics / circuit diagrams

Six Elements of OSHW Design

3. BOM / parts list

Six Elements of OSHW Design

4. Diagram of physical layout of electronics

Six Elements of OSHW Design

5. Firmware for the processor

Six Elements of OSHW Design

6. API / drivers

Elements of Hardware Design

• Photos / drawings !

• Written instructions !

• Other explanations

Design Files can also include:

• Open source tools !

• Standard components

Designing the Hardware:

• Respect trademarks !

• Link to source files !

• Improve, don’t copy !

• Label Versions !

• OSHW logo

Distributing the Hardware:

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Thingverse : 3D files !

Instructables : inventions !

Github : social coding !

Your website !

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Repositories

VIRAL ATTRIBUTION

1. VIRAL: All derivatives remain OSHW !

2. ATTRIBUTION: credit is given to upstream designers / developers

OSHW ideals:

Popular copyleft licenses include: • Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike • GNU General Public License (GPL) • Hardware-Specific Licenses: TAPR OHL, CERN OHL

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Permissive licenses include: • Creative Commons Attribution • FreeBSD license • MIT license

Licensing your IP

“Fake-duinos”

Challenges of OSHW

• Represent the OSHW community !

• Educate !

• Voice community standards

Gabriella Levine President of OSHWA

Thank You ! !