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A WikiHouse under construction at Ouisharefest in Paris, May 2013. After winning a cash prize at TEDGlobal in June 2012, the project invested the prize money into a partnership with the Brazilian youth mobilization project Dharma and the analysis agency BrazilIntel to build WikiHouses in the poorest favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [4]
The project was born out of a commission for furniture for a tech startup in London, England. When the startup's sister office in New York City required furniture, it was decided to manufacture it locally rather than ship the completed product. Opendesk targeted startups along with creative companies and nonprofit organisations as a customer base.
This is a list of open-source hardware projects, including computer systems and components, cameras, radio, telephony, science education, machines and tools, robotics, renewable energy, home automation, medical and biotech, automotive, prototyping, test equipment, and musical instruments.
Construction – WikiHouse is an open-source project for designing and building houses. [67] [68] Energy research – The Open Energy Modelling Initiative promotes open-source models and open data in energy research and policy advice.
A big project can upend the lives of tens of thousands of people. Since 2004, World Bank estimates indicate that at least a dozen bank-supported projects physically or economically displaced more than 50,000 people each. Studies show that forced relocations can rip apart kinship networks and increase risks of illness and disease.
Projects organized to create in an open content manner and produce "open content" products. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
For example, in 2020, a record 26 projects qualified, while later that same year, 35 more reached the necessary threshold.
For example, OpenCores prefers the LGPL or a Modified BSD License, [53] FreeCores insists on the GPL, [54] Open Hardware Foundation promotes "copyleft or other permissive licenses", [55] the Open Graphics Project uses [56] a variety of licenses, including the MIT license, GPL, and a proprietary license, [57] and the Balloon Project wrote their ...