Wolfgang Spraul schrieb: > Today Openmoko released additional pieces of documentation about > Freerunner hardware: board outline, footprints and netlist. > Same as all other releases before - under Creative Commons Share-Alike > license. > Available at: > http://downloads.openmoko.org/developer/schematics/GTA02/gta02_outline_footprints_netlist.tar.bz2
This is in general great! But sorry to be a little sceptical here - but hardware != software. What I mean is that collaboratively developing software is pretty easy since we have the internet to share and most of us have a PC to develop upon. But with hardware development the situation is a little bit different. Even if the collaborate development effort succeeds, i.e. KiCAD is sufficient and a hardware design becomes ready, it still needs to be produced - and here troubles start, from buying the parts, making PCBs etc. running up the whole stack to asembling the whole device and testing it. This cannot be done as open source effort with volunteers. Here real money is involved - a lot of real money. And this needs to be done several times, for prototypes, small A-series, probably a B-series and then final devices. But you should know better than me about this process (at least by now). What are the plans or ideas to enable later on production? Pleas eget me right, I would love to see such a project succeed and maybe even contribute to it but I really cannot imagine any possibility how such a hardware production should work in the end without a big sponsor in the background. Cheers nils faerber -- kernel concepts GbR Tel: +49-271-771091-12 Sieghuetter Hauptweg 48 Fax: +49-271-771091-19 D-57072 Siegen Mob: +49-176-21024535 http://www.kernelconcepts.de _______________________________________________ hardware mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/hardware
