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

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

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

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

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

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

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]
-I need HELP!!  Pardon me, but you have written down my thugthos exactly. A while back, I started using my categories as tags. I create new categories on the fly, as seems fit. But I've gradually started to regret that decision. What I really wanted was to have both a category to specify the overall main theme for each post, and a set of tags to aid in searching. So, when I first started using tags, I used UTW to turn the categories into tags.  However, now my edit post screen STILL includes upwards of 70 categories.  I never deleted them, just in case.  Since WP23 now supports tags, there is no need for UTW, and I feel more confident that I don't need as many categories   Care to give me all the steps I should take to not lose any tags while completing this transition?  I plan to delete sub-subcategories, and use categories as a GENERAL category (as I believe is intended).
+== 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]]