Open design

This resource is here to promote and create easily accessible and truly open designs, and to allow people to learn by doing along the way. Open design or "open source design" is the giving away of designs for products, goods, and other technologies.

Why

Why open design? Open designs, that can collaboratively be added to changed, and checked have multiple uses. They lower the entry cost to markets. They allow for shared knowledge. Imagine if you and everyone else had electronic copies your cars design prints, and electronic copy of every design of every part of your car.

Brainstorming

Things that would be useful to have open designs for might include:

• Open design of other farming implements and agricultural equipment
• Silicon and cheap (organic?... roll to roll?) solar cells
• RAM
• Amplifiers
• Those space-foam mattresses
• Rockets [1] [2]
• An optimized UHF antenna [3]
• Vertical farms
• 3D solar cells
• Blankets

Electronics

• E-ink
• Microchips
• Microphones
• LCD's
• Flash memory

Appliances

• Open design sinks
• Open design dish washers
• Open design clothes washers
• Open design clothes dryers

Clothing

• Open design shirt
• Open design socks
• Open design pants

Materials

• Open design alloys
• Open design fabrics
• Open design carbon fiber
• Open design nanotubes

Transportation

• Open design jet - how much could an open design jet reduce costs to consumers and businesses while raising profit margins?
• Open design cars
• Open design airplanes

Agriculture

• Open design harvester
• Open design seed planters

Industry

• Open design heavy equipment
• Open design tractor
• Open design machine tools
• Open design manufacturing equipment
• Open design electric motors

Energy

• Open design photovoltaic
• Open design wind turbines

Buildings

• Open design barns
• Open design houses
• Open design skyscraper - Would having a template design reduce costs? Could it be forked into infinite variations?
• Other buildings and Blue prints

Miscellaneous

• Open design pipes
• Wind tunnel
• Exercise equipment

How to get involved

For the most part, THERE ARE NO WRONG WAYS TO GET INVOLVED so please do what you think would further the goals of this project but more importantly the mission of Wikademia and Wikimedia as a whole, so long as you adhere to a few basic rules:

• Be civil towards others (and maybe even considerate, polite, and respectful)
• Be bold
• Assume good faith towards others
• Act in good faith in your contributions

See also

• Open projects
• Free content
• Free engineering
• Lunar BoomTown Designers wanted and welcome!
• Public domain
• Open automotive
• Open book scanner
• Open e-ink
• Open electronic ink
• Open portable media player
• Open recycling
• Open source optics
• Open stepper motor

External links

Open Farm Tech - cc-by-sa and gfdl Open design on Wikipedia Open architecture challenge Open Source Green Vehicle Project OpenSPARC T2 source Open source hardware @ Wikia Open Circuits wiki Open80211s

OpenGraphics.org Via Open Book CAD Files, under CC-SA Free SSD Specs Free MMC Specs Can peer production make washing machines? p2pFoundation, category:design What kind of movement is the open movement?

• Wikipainting

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