User innovation talk links

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

Is that really all there is to it becusae that'd be flabbergasting.

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.