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== DDWRT and OpenWRT ==
That's a mold-breaekr. Great thinking!
 
[http://openwrt.org OpenWRT] is a community produced firmware for home routers including the Linksys WRT. [[http://www.dd-wrt.com DD-WRT] is a version of OpenWRT that is now distributed commercially on several routers.
 
* [http://wiki.openwrt.org/CompleteTableOfHardware List of currently supported hardware]
 
Software hacks:
 
* [http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/What_is_%22DD-WRT%22%3F#Features DD-WRT feature list]
* [http://lifehacker.com/software/router/hack-attack-turn-your-60-router-into-a-600-router-178132.php Turn $60 router into a $600 router]
* [http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato Tomato firmware]
 
Hardware hacks:
 
* [http://www.talug.org/events/20050115/Wireless_Linux/img26.html Adding ports]
* [http://icrontic.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4517 Overclocking]
* [http://yasha.okshtein.net/wrt54g/ Wifi Car] ([http://yasha.okshtein.net/wrt54g/pics2.html more pictures])
 
There are now even several books on the topic of modifying a WRT54G machine including this one:
 
* [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]


== Roomba/iCreate ==
== Roomba/iCreate ==

Revision as of 21:52, 26 June 2011

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.

RockBox

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

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.

Wikitravel

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

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

That's a mold-breaekr. Great thinking!

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.