Interview
summary
A clear checklist of what happened and what worked: a recurring community runs group orders cut parts from $5 to $3 when buying 25, teaches physical computing to roughly 300 students with ~10 who built art robots, and evolves toolchains from Arduino toward ARM. Shared services prove useful — batch PCB panelization keeps fabrication in America and lowers per‑board cost — and localized production, class materials, and open design files are the actual outputs, not just rhetoric.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Open hardware at Open Source Bridge
- 1:17Dorkbot origins and growth
- 3:49Group orders and hardware projects
- 6:39Arduino’s evolution
- 8:44SparkFun and BatchPCB innovations
- 10:48Getting involved with Dorkbot PDX
- 12:31Future of open hardware and outreach
- 14:58ARM processors and toolchains
- 16:02Open source LEGO robotics alternatives
- 17:24Portland’s open hardware role
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