open-hardware
open-hardware


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liz "Hi @Mathew, thanks for commenting! When i use this term, i don't use it in reference to git. I add a second use of the word "open" in front of open..." | Read more » almost 8 years ago
mathew "this term references a Git workflow. Still confused how we implement outside of Git, or why we use this term unless we're referring to a Git workfl..." | Read more » almost 8 years ago
StewartJameson "Packaging design has always had a strong impact on establishing the brand. I guess this Spark company realizes that so it's made some sweet box for..." | Read more » almost 8 years ago
mathew "that breadboard sticker ftw! " | Read more » about 8 years ago
EdMallon "After two successful deployments of our temperature chains I can confirm that my heat-shrink and epoxy sensor mounting method goes the distance und..." | Read more » about 8 years ago
warren "Go for it, although we'll probably adapt this as we go; I think probably auto-converting from markdown to json is a bit hairy, but if you put it up..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
donblair "Love the wiki idea! Also love the .json idea. Sounds as though, as long as we come up with a tagging / formatting convention, we could do the wik..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "+1 wiki system; if you need a machine readable thing, we can make something like that using tags, so just invent whatever new tagging standards you..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
mathew "some sensors, like 1-wire sensors, have a unique hex code already to allow them to be networked. You could record a registry of those easily and a..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "Hi, Don - hmm, i wonder if it could relate to this idea for a "contributors.json" file attached to each hardware project -- at least in format? ht..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "I've just posted a first draft "Contributing to Public Lab Hardware" here: https://publiclab.org/wiki/contributing-to-public-lab-hardware And adde..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
warren "I know not everyone like the name "open open hardware" - but until we have a better one, I like its reference to this methodology designed for soft..." | Read more » over 8 years ago
gpenzo "Any update on your sensor setup? " | Read more » about 9 years ago
EdMallon "This thread was part of my inspiration to build a few long strings of DS18B20 sensors: http://edwardmallon.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/using-ds18b20-..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
rjstatic "While not MVP, newt compile price <int> will be so cool in the future when there is adoption of this sort of thing. " | Read more » about 9 years ago
warren "I had some ideas (talking with @rjstatic) about how a more Bower- or NPM-style utility could parse such files... these are just roughly sketched ou..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
btbonval "@amysoyka bitbucket can use git or mercurial, which are both options I noted in a previous comment. GitHub is not the same as git. I actually have ..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
amysoyka "@warren What you are talking about reminds me of what Mozilla Science were talking about at the Open Knowledge meetup which Public Labs was also i..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
btbonval "Oh here's a crazy idea. You could point at other contributor.json files by reference using a universal identifier, aka UUID. https://en.wikipedia.o..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
btbonval "Timestamping would probably be better than versioning because version numbers don't always get used in proper ways. Think of forking a feature bran..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
btbonval "That covers the first problem but not the second. So I think you'd need to do one of two things to really preserve the historical contributors: ..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
warren "ah, to look to bower and npm again on that point of the linked-to-projects changing, we could link to a specific version of the contributors.json f..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
btbonval "I think linking to other files would be alright. In that sense, you are emulating a graph by issuing pointers as opposed to trying to copy-by-value..." | Read more » about 9 years ago
warren "I was a bit inspired by bower's bower.json or npm's package.json formats -- and actually, one thought was that the builds_upon would link to more c..." | Read more » about 9 years ago