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Open design or "open source design" is the giving away of designs for products, goods, and other technologies. 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. Why open design? Checkout all the open design projects.

Why Open Source Design?

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

Open Source Design Hardware/Electronics

E-ink
Microchips
Microphones
LCD's
Flash memory

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

External links

Wikipainting

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+'''Open design''' or "open source design" is the giving away of designs for products, goods, and other technologies. 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. [[Why open design|Why open design]]? Checkout all the [[Open design/Open design projects|open design projects]].
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 * 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 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]]
-* [[Open design crane]]
-==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
-* [[Open design autonomous vehicle navigation]]
-* [[Open source optics]]
 ==How to get involved==