User innovation talk links: Difference between revisions

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This talk was has been giving a number of times at Eric von Hippel's classes and is usually 90 minutes in length.

The following links act a tour of a series of examples of user innovation to show the breadth of user innovation and community innovation and production.

CHDK[edit]

CHDK is a free software/open source firmware add-on for digital cameras.

Dumping Canon Firmware
CHDK homepage (including supported camera list)
Screenshots
Time-lapse sample
Lightning photography plus [1] [2]
HDR photography [3]
Focus bracketing
Ultra high-speed shutter and flash
FAQ: May I suggest a new feature?

RockBox[edit]

RockBox is alternate firmware for Digital Audio Players (DAP) including Apple iPods.

Archos Jukebox
RockBox Feature Tour (iPod nano) iPod Screenshot
RockBox plugin matrix
RockBox support devices
SanDisk Sansa news article

dotSUB[edit]

Is an online community that engages in collaborative translations of videos and film through collaborative amateur subtitling at less than order of magnitude the cost of professional subtitling.

dotSUB homepage
Translation demonstration
RSS in Plain English video with a couple dozen translations

Wikitravel[edit]

Wikitravel is a non-Wikimedia collaborative projects that allows communities to create travel guides.

Ho Chi Minh City on Wikitravel (sample article)
Wikitravel Press
Sample Wikitravel Book

Other (more whimsical but no less useful) community travel sites include:

DDWRT and OpenWRT[edit]

OpenWRT is a community produced firmware for home routers including the Linksys WRT. [DD-WRT is a version of OpenWRT that is now distributed commercially on several routers.

List of currently supported hardware

Software hacks:

Hardware hacks:

There are now even several books on the topic of modifying a WRT54G machine including this one:

Ultimate WRT54G Hacking

Roomba/iCreate[edit]

iRobot is a version of iRobot's popular Roomba vacuum cleaner that is designed for hobbiest. A large number of hobbiest had modified and improved their Roomba robotic vaccum cleaners. Create is essentially a Roomba minus the vacuum cleaner that is targeted at hobbiests.

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-This talk was [[given at::Eric von Hippel's class]] on [[delivered on::March 7, 2008]] and was [[length::90]] minutes in length.
+This talk was has been giving a number of times at Eric von Hippel's classes and is usually 90 minutes in length.
 The following links act a tour of a series of examples of user
-innovation used as examples to show the breadth of user innovation and
+innovation to show the breadth of user innovation and
-community innovation and production for a class by Eric von Hippel's.
+community innovation and production.
 == CHDK ==
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 [http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page CHDK] is a free software/open source firmware add-on for digital cameras.
+* [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/chdk/images/d/dc/G7_blinking_RS232_ewavr.jpg Dumping Canon Firmware]
 * [http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page CHDK homepage] (including supported camera list)
 * [http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK_firmware_usage Screenshots]
-* [http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/tag/chdk/ Time-lapse sample]
+* [http://blip.tv/file/320051/ Time-lapse sample]
-* [http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Clash3.jpg Lightning photography]
+* [http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Samples:_Lightning_photography Lightning photography] plus [http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1010&message=23532905] [http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1010&message=23543185]
-* [http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Samples:_HDR HDR photography]
+* [http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Samples:_HDR HDR photography] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Columbia_Parliament_Buildings_-_Pano_-_HDR.jpg]
 * [http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Samples:_Unlimited_DOF Focus bracketing]
 * [http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Samples:_High-Speed_Shutter_%26_Flash-Sync Ultra high-speed shutter and flash]
-* [http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Downloads Download pages] with several different builds
+* [http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ#Q._May_I_suggest_a_new_feature.3F FAQ: May I suggest a new feature?]
 == RockBox ==
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 Apple iPods.
-* [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/Jukeboxrecorder2b.jpg Archos Jukebox]
+* [http://bama.ua.edu/~bhodges/portfolio/images/Archos%20Jukebox.jpg Archos Jukebox]
-* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockbox#Gallery RockBox Screenshot] (video iPod)
+* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDrZ6dG7rcE RockBox Feature Tour] (iPod nano) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IPod_mini_rockbox.jpg iPod Screenshot]
 * [http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PluginIndex RockBox plugin matrix]
 * [http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DeviceChart RockBox support devices]
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 * [http://www.amazon.com/Linksys-WRT54G-Ultimate-Hacking-Asadoorian/dp/1597491667/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1204907833&sr=1-1 Ultimate WRT54G Hacking]
-== iRobot Create ==
+== Roomba/iCreate ==
 iRobot is a version of iRobot's popular Roomba vacuum cleaner that is
 designed for hobbiest. A large number of hobbiest had modified and
 improved their Roomba robotic vaccum cleaners. Create is essentially a
-Roomba minus the vacuum cleaner that is targeted at hobbyiests.
+Roomba minus the vacuum cleaner that is targeted at hobbiests.
+* [http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/feature-top-5-roomba-hacks Top 5 Roomba Hacks]
 * [http://hackingroomba.com/projects/build-a-cylon-roomba/ Cylon Roomba]
 * [http://hackingroomba.com/projects/roombamidi2/ MIDI Hack for Roomba]