Company:Qi Hardware

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Qi Hardware Inc.
TypePublic
Industry
Headquarters
San Francisco , California
,
United States
Number of locations
San Francisco , Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei
Area served
Worldwide
Products
  • Ben Nanonote
  • Milkymist

Qi Hardware is an organization which produces copyleft hardware and software, in an attempt to apply the Free Software Foundation's GNU GPL concept of copylefting software to the hardware layer by using the CC BY-SA license for schematics, bill of materials and PCB layout data. The project has been both a community of popular open hardware websites and a company, founded by Steve Mosher, Jon Phillips, Wolfgang Spraul and Yi Zhang, that makes hardware products.[1][2][3] Formed from the now defunct Openmoko project,[2] key members went on to form Qi Hardware Inc. and Sharism At Work Ltd. Thus far, the project has released the Ben Nanonote,[4][5][6][7] the Milkymist One,[8] and the Ben WPAN wireless project[9][10] to create a copyleft wireless platform. The examples of Qi hardware projects are the Ben NanoNote pocket computer, Elphel 353 video camera and Milkymist One video synthesizer.

References

  1. ↑ Eric Brown (Mar 16, 2010). "Hackable Linux clamshell goes on sale for $99". Linux Devices. https://linuxdevices.org/hackable-linux-clamshell-goes-on-sale-for-99/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Pam Derringer (2009-07-01). "Openomoko Layoffs Lead to New Open Hardware Venture". linux.com. https://www.linux.com/news/openmoko-layoffs-lead-new-open-hardware-venture/. 
  3. ↑ "Milkymist One video synthesizer shown at 6th Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal". Qi Hardware. May 13, 2011. http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/News_Release:_Milkymist_One_video_synthesizer_shown_at_6th_Libre_Graphics_Meeting_in_Montreal. 
  4. ↑ Gareth Halfacree (2010-03-16). "Qi Hardware launches NanoNote". Bit-tech. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2010/03/16/qi-hardware-launches-nanonote/1. 
  5. ↑ Donald Melanson (2010-03-15). "Qi Hardware's tiny, hackable Ben NanoNote now shipping". Bit-tech. https://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/. 
  6. ↑ David Murphy (2010-06-05). "Qi Hardware Launches Open-Source Computer". PCMag. https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364710,00.asp. 
  7. ↑ rg (2010-03-17). "Qi Hardware Ben NanoNote". linux.com. http://www.linux-netbook.com/qi-hardware-ben-nanonote. 
  8. ↑ Ray, Bill. "Open-source hardware group puts out vid system-on-a-chip". https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/28/milkymist/. 
  9. ↑ Terrence O'Brien (2011-06-17). "Qi-Hardware debuts free, open source wireless solution, not a threat to WiFi". Engadget. https://www.engadget.com/2011/06/17/qi-hardware-debuts-free-open-source-wireless-solution-not-a-th/. 
  10. ↑ Jake (2011-06-16). "Phillips: Qi Hardware Releases Free Wireless Hardware". LWN.net. https://lwn.net/Articles/448048/. 

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