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The New Shop Class: Getting Started with 3D Printing, Arduino, and Wearable Tech
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The New Shop Class: Getting Started with 3D Printing, Arduino, and Wearable Tech

by Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
May 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
300 pages
9h 3m
English
Apress
Content preview from The New Shop Class: Getting Started with 3D Printing, Arduino, and Wearable Tech

CHAPTER 9

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Open Source Mindset and Community

We have been talking a lot about open source technologies in this book so far and have shown you a lot of examples. But what does open source really mean? Why does Rich believe in it so strongly? What technologies have enabled open source development and/or benefited from it? This chapter takes you through Rich’s point of view on the open source movement in general and how it applies to the technologies we are discussing in this book in particular. A lot of software you use at home or work – say, to do your taxes or play computer games – is typically not open source. It is software one company owns. ...

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