[OH Updates] user-based innovation?

[Catarina Mota]

Thank you so much Leah. I'm not sure how I missed this paper, considering
that it's highly relevant for the work I'm doing. Which leads me to
something that's been on my mind for a while: a public aggregator of links
to resources about open-source hardware (papers, media articles,
presentations, videos, documentaries, news, etc.), properly categorized,
tagged and searcheable.

Personally, I've spent a lot of time collecting and organizing resources on
the topic and started to think that, instead of just living on my computer,
it might be useful to others - not just for scholars but for anyone who
wants to make a presentation on open hardware and might wish to reference
data, examples, other people's work, etc. I sketched it out a couple months
ago, but before doing any more work on it, I'm wondering if this has any
interest for the community?

Catarina

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Leah Buechley <buechley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sure!  There's a decent synopsis (along w/ several other user innovation
> LilyPad examples) in the last 1/2 of this paper:
>
> Buechley, L. and Hill, B. M. 2010. LilyPad in the Wild: How Hardware’s
> Long Tail is Supporting New Engineering and Design Communities. In
> Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Aarhus, Denmark,
> 199-207.
> link: http://hlt.media.mit.edu/publications/buechley_DIS_10.pdf
>
> A brief synopsis (fr. paper):
>
> Kate Hartman and Rob Faludi developed still another kind of extension.
> Like Maruin Donneaud, they made use of the OSH board files to design a
> component that wasn’t yet part of the LilyPad kit, a wireless XBee radio.
> However they envisioned it being used in both their own projects and in
> educational settings:
>
> “Human bodies don't like to be tethered, so most projects that involve
> sharing body data require some sort of wireless component...The main reason
> we developed the Lilypad XBee was because we repeatedly saw students
> strapping XBees on breadboards into their clothing and we knew there must
> be a better way.”
>
> Figure 8. Kate Hartman and Rob Faludiʼs LilyPad XBee, a LilyPad for
> wireless communication.
>
> The left image in Figure 8 shows the initial version of the LilyPad XBee
> sewn into a wrist-band.
>
> Because their focus included an educational/outreach component, these
> designers weren’t content to produce just one or two boards for their own
> designs. They saw their addition as an important improvement to the LilyPad
> kit and wanted their boards to be widely available. In November of 2008,
> after some collaborative re-designing undertaken by all of the
> stakeholders, the LilyPad XBee was released as an official part of the
> LilyPad Arduino kit. This official version can be seen in the right-hand
> image in Figure 8.
>
> I bet Rob & Kate would also be happy to chat.
>
> cheers,
> Leah
>
> On Nov 12, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Catarina Mota wrote:
>
> > Thanks Leah! Can you share any info on how the project was developed,
> i.e. what prompted Kate and Rob to design it, how it went from idea to
> design to manufacturing, etc.?
> >
> > I'm also mentioning botanicalls on my thesis and already got the story
> of how it came to be from Tom Igoe :)
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Leah Buechley <buechley at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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!
> > >
> > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Windell H. Oskay <windell at oskay.net>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Nov 12, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Catarina Mota wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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?
> > >
> > > Here's one of ours:
> > >
> > >  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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