Trolltech's Linux-based Greenphone reportedly was featured in a presentation on open source hardware at this week's SXSW (South-by-Southwest) Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. The presentation discussed open hardware licensing, examples, and its potential impact on creative hardware design, according to a CNET story.

Limor Fried (Click to visit Fried's website)

The SXSW Festival's “Interactive” event aims to attract “digital creatives,” much as SXSW Music and Film festivals aim to lure creative professionals from more traditional artistic genres. The event's open source hardware presentation was led by Make magazine editor Phil Torrone along with Limor Fried (pictured at right), described as a “do-it-yourself electronics pioneer.”

According to CNET, Torrone and Fried broached topics as fun and diverse DIY cell-phone signal jammers for clearing tables in crowded Internet cafes, using open-API iRobot Roombas to play Robot Frogger with real traffic, open source laser etching equipment, and a shirt made out of computer fans. Another topic was open source licenses for hardware design documents, such as that recently drafted by TAPR.

The CNET story can be found here.

 
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