Hacking Hardware using Free Software & GNU/Linux | Abhas Abhinav | IndiaFOSS 2.0 | FOSS United
Description of the proposed talk:
https://abhas.io/fossunited/
The goal of this talk is to offer a starting point for those who want to
experiment with hardware - using free software and self-hosted services.
- Why play with hardware?
- What sort of play is (easily) possible?
- Is it costly / tough to get access to hackable hardware?
- Other challenges in hardware hacking and experimentation
- What sort of hardware is there to play with?
- lights
- led panels
- switches
- sensors
- routers
- emulators
- single-board computers
- laptops
- keyboards
- serial consoles
- entertainment centers
- mobile phones
- cars
- 3d printers and engravers
- Building hardware like a sysadmin!
- (libre) Software backends and (self-hosted) services
that hardware can talk to and rely on
- The community around hackable hardware
- how large is this community?
- how to build your own?
- why is this community important to build and sustain?
- Licenses for hardware designs and the software which runs on them