Open Hardware Summit

Selected extracts from my notes from the Open Hardware Summit that could just have easily have come from the Guggenheim Lab workshop the day before.

• Change is painful.
• Expect resistance.
• Mistakes will get institutionalised.
• Even your friends might become a competitor.
• Things will get used differently to how you intended.
• Ideas spread and change.
• Interesting things happen at the edges, with systems that are porous and when you move between different fields.
• What you think of as being possible is dictated by your past experience.
• As time progresses, so should your tools.
• People will use the technology in ways you cannot predict, so you need to build it to be open and flexible.