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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 Find out what makes good copyleft hardware, how you can benefit from it as user and creator, and how to give back. Do it yourself? - Do it together!

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News	On Sale	Platforms
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 <- (see also: What others are saying)	Ben NanoNote (EU shop, US, Japan, others) Elphel 353 Milkymist One Shipping Notes, Group Sales Background info: Why buy copyleft hardware?	video synthesizer Milkymist One pocket computer Ben NanoNote video camera Elphel You can manufacture and sell your own products using these platforms, see the Projects Server for all projects. Background info: Why make and sell copyleft hardware?

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