[OH Updates] user-based innovation?

[Leah Buechley]

The LilyPad XBee by Kate Hartmann & Rob Faludi is another nice one.

On Nov 12, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Catarina Mota wrote:

> These are perfect examples, thanks Phil and Windell!
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> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Windell H. Oskay <windell at oskay.net> wrote:
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> On Nov 12, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Catarina Mota wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm writing a phd dissertation on open source hardware and digital fabrication and I'm currently working on a section about user-based innovation. One recent and exemplary case was the kinect hacking, but unfortunately that's not open source hardware. So I was wondering if anyone on this list knows of and cares to share situations in which a user's contributions (hacks, mods, derivatives) were so useful that you ended up incorporating them into your products?
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> Here's one of ours:
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>  A user's hardware hack to our Peggy 2 kit  ( http://www.planetclegg.com/projects/QC-Peggy.html ) was so useful that we ended up building it as an option into the next rev of the board.
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