Does anyone have experience with this board? Apparently it is 100% open and anyone can build it. There's a video of it in action and the documentation is good enough that even I could get it running. Here's their website: https://code.google.com/p/rt-8p8c/ And an image: And the video:
Open Source is like this too. I was once one of those leechers. It was only after I had benefited from open source that I felt gratitude and started to contribute. I still have days where I worry that if I share some info then someone will use it to make money and take away my job. It has already happened to me several times. Now that I'm a little older I realize that "You can win the rat race, but you're still a rat". So here's a big one finger salute to all the rats out there. I figured out a way, however, to win. By enabling each other in our quest to free ourselves from the shackles of the rat race, we have more power than the largest corporations. If you look at my income you would think I'm one of the poorest people in the US, but I eat far better than wealthy people thanks to permaculture... I have more powerful software than the wealthiest thanks to FOSS.... I'm more educated than 90% of the people around me thanks to community colleges and public universities... and soon I will be machining and printing custom parts from recycled plastic and aluminium that were previously reserved for only the richest snobs. This is a stepping stone in freeing myself from going to walmart to buy plastic parts... I can manufacture most anything I need and you can too. When this technology becomes ubiquitous, there will be no need for walmart, amazon, etc and their chinese slave labour camps won't get a penny from me. I'm happy to enable others because they are helping to bring down the worst people in society. As a bonus, sometimes I enable another enabler and they come up with things like open-builds, routy, laserprinters, etc and then they enable me to do those as well.
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