IMHO the goal should be to push open hardware right in front of what is comercially available, the open hardware movement should offer some innovative stuff which you cannot buy elsewhere. take a bill of materials, some 3d-printer for the static components, and create robots for cheap. there are printable quad-copters. would they be banned nobody could enforce that banning. would they be expensive, poor countries would have them too (by replacing 3d-printers with actual hand-work and good image-processing as an adviser). and the same for any kind of autonomously moving small devices. billions of people are on earth, great opportunity to put them into some constructive use by allowing all of them to contribute to open hardware. the reason why you cannot is that machines are required for some stuff, so let people build those machines!Statistics: Posted by piotr5 — Tue Nov 24, 2015 12:55 pm
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