Open design is the application of open source methods to the creation of physical products, machines and systems.
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| - Open design is the application of open source methods to the creation of physical products, machines and systems.
- Open design is the application of open source methods to the creation of physical products, machines and systems. People apply their skills and time to projects for the common good, perhaps where funding or commercial interest is lacking, for developing countries or to help to spread ecological or cheaper technologies. At the other end of the scale, open design may provide a framework for developing very advanced projects and technologies that might be beyond the resource of any one company or country and involve people who, without the copyleft mechanism, might not otherwise collaborate.
- Open Design was founded in 2006 by veteran game designer Wolfgang Baur. The company is known primarily for the quarterly gaming magazine Kobold Quarterly as well as ongoing patronage projects. Open Design has won a number of ENnie Awards for the magazine, a number of patronage projects, and the KQ website itself.
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| - Open design is the application of open source methods to the creation of physical products, machines and systems.
- Open design is the application of open source methods to the creation of physical products, machines and systems. People apply their skills and time to projects for the common good, perhaps where funding or commercial interest is lacking, for developing countries or to help to spread ecological or cheaper technologies. At the other end of the scale, open design may provide a framework for developing very advanced projects and technologies that might be beyond the resource of any one company or country and involve people who, without the copyleft mechanism, might not otherwise collaborate. The "open design" movement is currently fairly nascent but holds great potential for the future. In some respects design and engineering are even more suited to open collaborative development than the increasing common open-source software projects, because with 3D models and photographs the concept can often be understood visually. It is not even necessary that the project members speak the same languages to usefully collaborate. However there are certain barriers to overcome for open design when compared to software development where there are mature and widely used tools available and the duplication and distribution of code cost next to nothing. Creating, testing and modifying physical designs is not quite so straightforward because of the effort, time and cost required to create the physical artefact; although with access to emerging flexible computer-controlled manufacturing techniques the complexity and effort of construction can be significantly reduced (see tools mentioned in the fab lab article).
- Open Design was founded in 2006 by veteran game designer Wolfgang Baur. The company is known primarily for the quarterly gaming magazine Kobold Quarterly as well as ongoing patronage projects. Open Design has won a number of ENnie Awards for the magazine, a number of patronage projects, and the KQ website itself. On August 30, 2009, author Brandon Hodge announced that his proposed patronage project, From Shore to Sea, had been approved by Paizo Publishing to utilize their Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting as the adventure backdrop. This is the first adventure to be designed for the setting through the patron model. The book is set to be released by Paizo as part of their Pathfinder Modules line in 2010.
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