History of Open Source Hardware
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Enlightenment - 2000
- 1997 - first notions of open hardware were born [1]
- Rise of Open Source Ecology, 2003.
- Rise of RepRap, 2004
- RIse of Arduino, 2005
- Rise of Makerbot - 2009
- Rise of Lulzbot - 2011
- Rise of Prusa Printers
Dark Ages - 2014-2022
- Enclosure of Makerbot - 2014
- Lulzbot distress sale, but the company survives - 2019
- Shuttleworth Foundation closes its door - 2022
The Coming of Christ (or whoever your hero may be)
- OSE's conceptualization of Distributed Market Substitution to deliver the promise of open hardware via distributed production, and its first scalable experiment on the topic with the Seed Eco-Home, currently in the product release phase.