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Ben NanoNote Qi's mission is to promote and encourage the development of copyleft hardware. All steps needed to build the devices should be documented and the knowledge made available to anyone wanting to reproduce them. The ultimate goals are: a completely copylefted and fully documented hardware platform copyleft plans and software for manufacturing the proof that community development is superior to proprietary approaches Examples of emerging copyleft hardware are the Ben NanoNote pocket computer, Elphel 353 video camera, and upcoming Milkymist One interactive VJ station. A simple example of copyleft hardware is the Laoban Soundsystem. Find out what makes good copyleft hardware, how you can benefit from it, and how you can contribute. Do it yourself? - Do it together!

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Good News	Upcoming	Priorities
News Release: VJing Made So Simple Anyone Can Do It Copyleft Hardware News 2011-08-08 Copyleft Hardware News 2011-06-01 News Release: Milkymist One video synthesizer shown at 6th Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal Community news 2011-04-04 Community news 2011-03-01 Community news 2011-02-01 Community news 2011-01-01 -> All News on One Page	Milkymist One (home, RC2 schedule) SIE v3 Jlime dual booting Elphel 373 digital camera (all 373 news) Xue Camera Laoban Soundsystem	Recommended Buys Ben NanoNote, Elphel 353 File Bugs and Feature Requests Update the Wiki (documentation) Hack on OpenWRT (and help port packages) Make Hacks with Copyleft Hardware (as a platform) Do Advanced Hacking (CPU, MIPS emulator, Processor SIMD Video Support) Please email, blog, IRC or tweet if you miss anything...

Join	Concepts	Platforms
Projects Server Forum #qi-hardware on freenode IRC - live chat for immediate answers (archives) Discussion List - developers and users (archives) Email Announcements (archives) Press Where to Buy / Group Sales	You can say your product is Qi hardware if it has: Copyleft Plans (CC BY-SA): Plans to manufacture the device. Copyleft Software (GPL): Software to use the device and to construct it from the plans. Patent-Free: Patents free and clear for technology on the device. The goal of Qi is to have 100% Copyleft Hardware.	VJ station Milkymist One pocket computer Ben NanoNote electronics lab SIE video camera Elphel experimental video camera Xué

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