Adafruit, Chip heist, Hackerspaces - The Kit Conniption

Apr 26, 2011 · 1 hr 3 min · Episode 40 · 30.7 MB

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This week focused mainly around building a kit business, namely keeping costs down, keeping revenues in check and how to license your project.

Jigish linked to us from his site. Thanks!
The Nottingham Hackerspace, Nottinghack, was pushed out of their old space and needs help funding a new one.
Can hackerspaces thrive in a non-urban setting?
$37 Million worth of flash chips were stolen! And the dumdums were caught when they tried to sell them! Facebook has the details behind a new datacenter online. Looks like quite the fun engineering problem to get it all powered.
Chris is going to ESC and will be reporting for Element 14. Also doing some video from the show floor with Jeri Ellsworth.
Jonathon Straub wondering about the merits of starting a kit business for his board etching controller entry for the 555 contest.
Dave was offered $1000 to do videos walking people through the aspects of board design, start to finish.
What kind of license should be used for home projects? Here at The Amp Hour, we like the Open Source Hardware License or sometimes the CC-NC license.
- Ladyada of adafruit has an older article of the benefits of OSHW over CC-NC
More IP cases being pushed in China, but not to anyones benefit.
Texas Instruments has been "deputizing" people to be unofficial spokespersons for the company on social media outlets. Could have some interesting side effects, but they need to keep it laissez-faire.