The goal of this post is to provide a hub to discover some powerful internet resources out there.
For example here’s one I wanted to share.
- Open Source Ecology is a project for open source hardware that is significantly cheaper than retail costs. Some of the equipment include open source designs for CNC machines, windmills, tractors, plasma cutters, power supplies, motors, generators, and much more!
https://www.opensourceecology.org/
Additional Resources
- The List of Awesome: https://github.com/topics/awesome
- Library Genesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
I love this kinda crap. “Hack the planet” and so on. Is someone working on an open source car?
I know right? Open source hardware has so many potential benefits over commercial. Significantly decreased price, privacy, good documentation, right to repair, no conflict of interest and potentially one day performance. Imagine we have engineers from across the world improving a single computer chip design, generator design, solar panel fabrication process, or maybe even perhaps an open source fusion reactor blueprint someday in the next 20 years (pun intended).
I’m seriously considering starting something like this myself. Open source blueprints for power generation/energy storage (regular batteries, thermal sand resevior based batteries, hydro power generation), water filtration, machine tools for fabricating anything, CNC machine, plasma cutters, hand tools, etc. Basically everything you could need to live Open Source.
The problem as always is getting enough designers, engineers, and volunteers.
My Chevy bolt proudly proclaims that its dashboard UI is open source software
I imagine it follows the splash screen with “you can submit PRs to https://github.com/my-chevy/dashui.git” lol