Dangerous Prototypes: Open Source Hardware Seeding 48
MojoKid writes "Dangerous Prototypes is a two-year old organization with the stated mission of producing 'one new open source project every month.' In its nearly two years of existence, DP has created about 30 projects, such as the Flash Destroyer, which tests the limits of solid state storage by writing and verifying a common EEPROM chip, rated for 1 million writes, until it burns out. The projects themselves are being sold by another interesting company, Seeed Studio. Seeed is a contract manufacturing/sales channel for hire. It helps hardware designers get their ideas manufactured in China and sold worldwide with a service called Propagate for manufacturing small quantities (100+) of open source hardware."
Re:Can you say... (Score:3, Funny)
And what a stupid goal to go by. "No, we don't have big goals in life. We only make small shitty stuff. So we must compensate, by making MOAR [titaniumteddybear.net] small shitty stuff." ;)
Also, what's the point of creating new projects, if they won't maintain them? I'm not gonna use them, as I won't risk getting used to something that will be dead and deprecated in a few days.
And, I myself would have no problem "creating" a new open source project a month. I wouldn't guarantee any stability, quality or usefulness though.