Open Source Physical Objects: Limor Fried and Her x0xb0x

A conversation between hacker/artist Limor Fried ("LadyAda") and Joi Ito with Phil Torrone of Make Magazine. Fried talks about her popular x0xb0x synthesizer kits, and the increasing elaborate revisioning of the product that's coming from her users. With Ito and Torrone, she proposes that this is a promising model for "open source physical objects" - extending the permitted hackability of software to hardware. This is an interview from South by Southwest: Interactive, in March 2006.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• gbppr
• ladyada
• xoxbox

[MassimoPiai]

@frostedminipete so do I *sigh*

[reesejpuc]

adafruit, eevblog...huge thumbs up

[firehandszarb]

people will buy the kit out of convenience and having the confidence that they have all the correct parts and PCB (and the prospect of getting a great piece of kit). The fact that its open source will not affect this, just the same way that the arduino is open source and you can buy clones, many people will still buy arduino boards for convenence and the confidence that it is going to work.

[THEDEFOCATOR]

I hope someone builds an ARP odyssey clone.

[frostedminipete]

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