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* [http://dotsub.com/films/inplainenglish/index.php RSS in Plain English] video with a couple dozen translations
* [http://dotsub.com/films/inplainenglish/index.php RSS in Plain English] video with a couple dozen translations


== Wikitravel ==
Is that really all there is to it becusae that'd be flabbergasting.
 
[http://wikitravel.org Wikitravel] is a non-Wikimedia collaborative projects that allows communities to create travel guides.
 
* [http://wikitravel.org/en/Ho_Chi_Minh_City Ho Chi Minh City] on Wikitravel (sample article)
* [http://wikitravelpress.com/ Wikitravel Press]
* [http://www.lulu.com/browse/preview.php?fCID=1849551 Sample Wikitravel Book]
 
Other (more whimsical but no less useful) community travel sites include:
 
* [http://www.sleepinginairports.net/ The Budget Travel's Guide to Sleeping in Airports]
* [http://www.airlinemeals.net/ arlinemeals.net] and their [http://www.airlinemeals.net/indexMeals.html extensive meal list]


== DDWRT and OpenWRT ==
== DDWRT and OpenWRT ==

Revision as of 06:41, 1 May 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

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.

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.

Software hacks:

Hardware hacks:

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

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.