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that walkera F210 drone is THE coolest drone i've ever seen so far
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the thing is incredible I've watched a lot of videos on it
we have to do a drop on this one
@Frogman1010,
That is an excellent question and I'm very glad you asked. Open Source is a methodology of making the base components and methods known to the end user. Typically, the Open Source moniker is applied to software for which the source code is freely available, however Open Source has been around far longer and is more ubiquitous than modern computing.
One of the easiest analogies to make is a cooking recipe. It might be difficult to "reverse engineer" a complicated meal, however if the chef were to supply you the ingredients, amounts, and methods (on high for 20 minutes stirring slowly) they have just supplied an Open Source meal! No one calls it an Open Source meal, however because throughout history most technical advancements have been Open Source, therefore calling it so would be redundant. Much of the technology we all use on a daily basis is Open Source, whether we realize it or not.
Now, the subject of this poll is Open Source ROVs (aka drones, copters, multi-rotors). These would fall into the category of Open Source Hardware, which is a bit controversial. There are almost no Open Source Hardware devices of complexity since there's often some microchip somewhere (usually the CPU) that's not Open Source. A purist would require ever last piece and component to be Open Source in order to apply the Open Source Hardware designation.
This is not my intent here. Here, I'm more than happy to have ROVs which are capable of running Open Source Software without voiding the warranty, list the requisite parts and provide instructions on how to build. You'll notice the last two reqs are part of almost every build kit on the market today, it's that first " running Open Source Software without voiding the warranty" that gets sticky. These requirements are commonly referred to as 'Open Source friendly', although it would be friendlier if APIs and build documentation were given.
As a general rule, for me, the more open the project, the better! I've included some links to other Open Source fields, if you'd like further information or a better description than what I've provided.
http://www.oshwa.org/definition/ https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-hardware https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-source https://opensource.org/osd-annotated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_license
What do you mean by "Open sourced "