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Posted by Melih Karakelle on November 22, 2010 at 10:00pm

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We(Flytron.com) were thinking about turning our projects to opensource for a long time. But we were not sure about the way and procedures.

Then, this weekend I read and inspired Chris Anderson's great 10 Rules of Maker Businesses article. His all of the rules %100 right about our business. We find same rules after 2 years work except Opensource side of this job.

After this great article, we (me and Bora) decided to opensource development of our all projects. This is very hard for us because we have 20+ different products. Writing the manuals and explaining the codes will take long time but we will.


At first, we will share the design and codes of our RXBee (Xbee based radio tx/rx for robotic servo controls). Then the OpenFARC (Opensoruce far aerial control) project will follow them. I hope you will like it.


Thanks Chris :)


If you want to see how we cook the delicious electronics, please visit our blog. We will post everything there on every day.


Thanks for reading

Melih

Tags: electronics, flytron, opensource
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  • Mark Grennan November 24, 2010 at 5:55am
    I'm ok with the firmware not being open source as long as the hardware is open. Hardware has intrinsic value. Software is more imperial. If someone is unsure they can recover their can protect their value by open source-ing the code I'm OK with that. It doesn't mean they will get a return. Software is to easy to copy.

    As long as the hardware is open, you can write your own code; maybe better code; maybe code to do something completely different.

    I've seen revolutions happen and empires made because someone (Linus) allowed others to see and work with what they had done while others (CP/M, Novel) faded away having once owned the industry because they couldn't believe their users would help them innovate.

    Can I get an amen.
  • Paul Mather November 24, 2010 at 5:34am
    Yes, Matthias, Renato is right. Remzibi wrote the firmware for the OSD. He did/does not want to make it opensource. My PC program only configures the BIN file that gets written the EEPROM. I thought about making mine opensource, but I'm using a few 3rd party ActiveX controls for the COM port and input boxes that would require each user to purchase that wanted to edit the source.
  • Vikram November 24, 2010 at 1:39am
    Open FARC is interesting one.
  • Renato Aranghelovici November 23, 2010 at 10:31pm
    Because remzibi OSD firmware itself is not HK work.
  • Matthias Badaire November 23, 2010 at 3:43pm
    Ready to click buy as soon as the source is availanle on : http://www.flytron.com/simpleosd.htm
    HappyKillMore, I am confused .. why don't you release remzbi's osd source code then ?? did I miss something ?
  • Renato Aranghelovici November 23, 2010 at 1:49pm
    Let the revolution begin !
  • Mark Grennan November 23, 2010 at 11:59am
    I want!
  • Paul Mather November 23, 2010 at 9:11am
    Melih, good luck! I know the world will love an open source OSD!
  • Russkel November 23, 2010 at 6:13am
    Bravo. :)
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