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What would be FOSS equivalent for hardware ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just like we have software developed by the community, for the community. Can we have the same ideology applied to hardware ?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware the big difference is the cost of entry for a software project vs hardware. Software you're looking at a computer and time. Hardware you need at minimum a few hundred dollars for pcbs, and chips.

Using available goods though, there are things out there. Check out WLED. https://kno.wled.ge/ it's a software stack that runs on esp32 (mostly) boards to drive LEDs in very fun ways.