User innovation talk links: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 09:08, 10 June 2012

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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 * [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]
-Brogaard & OzhI guess we all have different ponits of view regarding the meaning of tag and category.  But I think our overall aim is to make a WP weblog as informative as we can, by using tags and/or categories in a way that assists the reader to find what they want quickly.For me, I'm using categories as a thematic index, a broad stroke.  When I start to use tags, it will be to provide much finer granularity, a more detailed index of article content that will probably span multiple categories.Well that's the idea and I haven't really looked at  yet, it's supposed to offer strong tag management.One way or another, I'll definitely use tags and categories together with the intention of making things as easy to find as possible.I think WP is a powerful and flexible system, especially with all the plugin authors about.  So hopefully, it should satisfy all our diverse needs
+== 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 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]
+* [http://hackingroomba.com/projects/roomba-tilt-control-with-macbook-perl/ Tilt sensor with Mac]
+* [http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Roomba-ExtremeTech-Tod-Kurt/dp/0470072717/ Hacking Roomba book]
+[[Category:Talks]]
+[[Category:Links]]