This might be of interest to people who are interested in open souce, in particular
hardware designs.
Today is a big day for anyone who designs (or builds) open source hardware. For about 5+ years or so the term "open source hardware" has been used more and more to generally describe projects in which the creators have decided to completely publish all the source, schematics, firmware, software, bill of materials, parts list, drawings and "board" files to recreate the hardware - they also allow any use, including commercial. Similar to open source software like Linux, but this hardware centric...
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