Qi hardware

Qi Hardware Inc.

Type| Public
Industry| Computer hardware
Computer software
Consumer electronics
Digital distribution
Headquarters|

San Francisco , California

United States

Number of locations

| Beijing, Hong Kong, San Francisco , Taipei

Area served

| Worldwide
Products|

Products list

* Ben Nanonote
* Milkymist

Qi hardware is a project which produces copyleft hardware, in an attempt to apply the Free Software Foundation's GNU GPL concept of copylefting software to the hardware layer. The project is both a community of popular open hardware websites and a company, co-founded by Wolfgang Spraul and Yi Zhang, that makes hardware products. Formed from the now defunct Openmoko project,[1] key members went on to form Qi Hardware Inc. and Sharism At Work Ltd. Thus far, the project has released the Ben Nanonote,[2][3][4][5] the Milkymist One,[6] and the Ben WPAN wireless project[7][8][9][10][11] to create a copyleft wireless platform.

Copyleft hardware is essentially requiring that all plans for hardware design (i.e. schematics, bill of materials and PCB layout data) are released under the Creative Commons license Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) and that the software needed to both manufacture the device and at least some software, including device drivers, necessary to use the hardware is released under the GNU General Public License. Technology for copyleft hardware are to be patent-free, and hence, all hardware which is Qi hardware is to be released early, often and publicly on the Internet.

The primary examples of Qi hardware projects are the Ben NanoNote pocket computer, Elphel 353 video camera and Milkymist One video synthesizer.

## Contents

* 1 Products
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Products

* Ben Nanonote, a Linux/OpenWrt based pocket computer
* Milkymist, a device for interactive visual effects for video performance artists (VJ)

## See also

* List of open source hardware projects
* Amateur radio and Amateur television
* Do it yourself (DIY)
* Electronic design automation
* Engineers Without Borders
* FreeCAD (software)
* Free content
* Free software
* Homebrew Computer Club
* Graphics hardware and FOSS
* Open CASCADE - software development platform freely available in open source.
* Open content
* Open design - Open-source physical design with a wider focus
* Open source
* Open-source software
* Open-source robotics
* Open Hardware and Design Alliance (OHANDA)

## References

1. ↑ Pam Derringer (2009-07-01). "Openomoko Layoffs Lead to New Open Hardware Venture". linux.com. http://www.linux.com/news/embedded-mobile/mids/29263-openmoko-layoffs-lead-to-new-open-hardware-venture. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
2. ↑ Gareth Halfacree (2010-03-16). "Qi Hardware launches NanoNote". bit-tech.com. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2010/03/16/qi-hardware-launches-nanonote/1. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
3. ↑ Donald Melanson (2010-03-15). "Qi Hardware's tiny, hackable Ben NanoNote now shipping". bit-tech.com. https://www.engadget.com/2010/03/15/qi-hardwares-tiny-hackable-ben-nanonote-now-shipping/. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
4. ↑ David Murphy (2010-06-05). "Qi Hardware Launches Open-Source Computer". pcmag.com. https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364710,00.asp. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
5. ↑ rg (2010-03-17). "Qi Hardware Ben NanoNote". linux.com. http://www.linux-netbook.com/qi-hardware-ben-nanonote. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
6. ↑ Ray, Bill. "Open-source hardware group puts out vid system-on-a-chip". https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/28/milkymist/. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
7. ↑ Terrence O'Brien (2011-06-17). "Qi-Hardware debuts free, open source wireless solution, not a threat to WiFi". engadget.com. https://www.engadget.com/2011/06/17/qi-hardware-debuts-free-open-source-wireless-solution-not-a-th/. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
8. ↑ "Qi Hardware Releases Free Wireless Hardware". rejon.org. 2011-06-15. Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. https://web.archive.org/web/20110708204104/http://rejon.org/2011/06/qi-hardware-releases-free-wireless-hardware/. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
9. ↑ Jake (2011-06-16). "Phillips: Qi Hardware Releases Free Wireless Hardware". lwn.net. https://lwn.net/Articles/448048/. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
10. ↑ Electronista Staff (2011-06-17). "Qi Hardware makes open-source wireless networking tech". electronista.com. http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/06/17/wireless.dongle.is.royalty.free/. Retrieved 2011-07-18.
11. ↑ Fabricatorz Staff (2011-06-17). "Qi Hardware Releases First Batch of 6LoWPAN Wireless Devices". fabricatorz.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. https://web.archive.org/web/20110724025812/http://fabricatorz.com/2011/06/qi-hardware-releases-first-batch-of-6lowpan-wireless-devices/. Retrieved 2011-07-18.

## External links

* Official website
* Nanonote
* Milkymist One VJ workstation
* Ben WPAN
* Identi.ca

* v
* t
* e

Linux-powered devices

Computers,
components|

| Nettops|

* Aleutia
* Eee Box
* fit-PC
* Lemote
* Linutop
* ThinCan
* Zonbu

|

Netbooks|

* Acer Aspire One
* Averatec Buddy
* Classmate PC
* CloudBook
* ECS G10IL
* Eee PC
* Elonex ONE/ONEt
* Gigabyte M912
* HP Mini 1000/2133
* Inspiron Mini
* Doel
* MSI Wind
* NanoBook
* Noahpad
* OLPC
* One A110
* Pinebook
* OpenBook
* Skytone Alpha-400
* Tianhua GX-1C

Tablets|

* Aakash
* Adam
* JooJoo
* Librem
* WeTab

Networking|

* Asus Routers
* BT Home Hub
* Buffalo AirStation
* Junxion Box
* Linksys WRT54G series
* Netgear DG834G
* Picotux
* Killer NIC

Storage|

* Buffalo LinkStation / TeraStation
* Drobo
* Linksys NSLU2
* Synology Inc.
* WD My Book
* QNAP

Other|

* BeagleBoard
* Chumby
* DragonBox Pyra
* Gumstix
* Librem
* Nvidia Drive
* Nvidia Jetson
* Palm Foleo
* Pandora
* Raspberry Pi
* SheevaPlug
* Stanley
* Asus Tinker Board

Accessories|

| Multimedia|

* DBox2
* Dreambox
* Hauppauge MediaMVP
* Neuros OSD
* TiVo
* Vu+
* Roku Digital Video Player
* Sonos

|

Handhelds|

* Amazon Kindle
* Archos PMA400
* ILiad
* Leapfrog Didj
* Nokia 770 / N800 / N810 / N900
* Pepper Pad
* Zaurus
* Sony Reader
* Zipit
* Ben NanoNote

Phones✝|

* Jolla
* Motorola A1200 / A1210 / A1600 / A760 / E680i / MOTO VE66 / PEBL U9 / RAZR2 V8 / ROKR E2 / E6 / E8 / EM30 / EM35 / Z6 / ZINE ZN5 / ZN200
* Neo 1973 / FreeRunner
* Nokia N9 / N900
* Palm Pixi / Pre / Pre 2 / HP Pre 3 / Veer
* Samsung Z1 / Z2 / Z3 / Z4

Consoles|

* DragonBox Pyra
* GP2X
* Wiz
* CAANOO
* mylo
* Pandora
* Dingoo A320
* Ouya
* GCW Zero

Defunct, historic|

* Cherrypal
* Simputer

✝ Excluding Android devices.

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