The Open Source Hardware Summit has posted the winning logo design. It’s “Golden Orb” by Macklin Chaffee.
You may start seeing it on our projects soon. Some of our projects and software are “more open”, such as the Bus Pirate and our development boards that are public domain. All our other (wholly owned) projects are Creative Commons BY-SA or “looser”. We don’t believe in interfering with your creations that are based on our stuff, and … we believe all exposure, even when it doesn’t profit us directly, is good for Dangerous Prototypes. What do you think?
Open Source Hardware (OSHW) is a term for tangible artifacts — machines, devices, or other physical things — whose design has been released to the public in such a way that anyone can make, modify, distribute, and use those things. This definition is intended to help provide guidelines for the development and evaluation of licenses for Open Source Hardware.
We’ll send a free Logic Shrimp to the first person to create a (public domain) Open Hardware Eagle logo we can use on our projects. Just post a link in the comments.
Damn, too bad exams start tomorrow.
http://www.leistungserfassung.com/oshw.scr
I used The GIMP to convert the image into a 1 bit b/w bitmap. The Eagle script was then generated by ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/eagle/userfiles/misc/bmp2eagle.zip. Tell me, if it is ok for you. The scale (mils per pixel) and the layer are configurable.
I don’t want to be the one who’s complaining all the time.. but to me it looks more like a “brOken hardware” logo with the missing gear tooth :)
I like it and find it consistent with the Open Software logo: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source
Best way to protect your “open” design is by leaving out one tooth in the gear. This is the Microsoft approach to open standards.
I agree that the wrong logo won the competition. When I voted, my favorite was ahead (I forget which one it was), but somehow my horse lost the race in the end. :-(
Oh yeah, I had my money on the copyleft chip, which came in second.
I considered the Open Lock v2, but that looked too much like a UI element that should have a function when clicked, rather than a logo that would represent a broader concept.
I was also keeping my fingers crossed for the copyleft chip logo. I just loved its simplicity and colour combination.
here’s mine: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25637706/OSHW.lbr
it was the best I could do :P
Hi CBX – I was unable to download it to include in the roundup. Could you please post again, or maybe in the forum?
Thanks!
I forgot to reinstall dropbox…
anoter mirror: http://download905.mediafire.com/1ar7rp8p34ug/j9hqcs48xqxaii2/OSHW.lbr
Interesting logo .. so how is it now wrt the one … can “anyone” put this logo on his board if he publishes the sch/pcb/fw with some open source licence?
Hmmmm, we seem to be a bit late on this. In any case, our library is available at https://github.com/NBitWonder/NBitWonder-Eagle-Library and we have the design available in 3 sizes. Feel free to check it out if you like.
Hi everybody,
Open Hardware logo competition is finished, but result makes me (and as I suppose, not only me but a lot of people with proper taste) hm… a bit oppress. So I peen my (as people name it) “copyleft” logo (which is due to unforeseen entropy fluctuations just 70 votes less) up and would like to share with community.
Image
http://repository.interplaymedium.org/Open-Hardware-Identity/final_design/openhardwarelogo.png
here is Eagle library (in vector, single and text version)
http://repository.interplaymedium.org/Open-Hardware-Identity/final_design/openhardwarelogo.lbr
here is micro-guide
http://repository.interplaymedium.org/Open-Hardware-Identity/final_design/openhardware_logo_microguide.pdf
and graphics sources
http://repository.interplaymedium.org/Open-Hardware-Identity/final_design/openhardwarelogo.sources.tar.gz
please, feel free to use :)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Hi Dmitry,
Thank you! I almost suggested that I would use your logo instead of the ‘winner’ if I ever release an open hardware design. Seems like people should be free to choose their own favorite. Who knows, maybe more actual designers will choose your images and it will become the de-facto standard.
I have to say again, your logo just looks so perfect!
Brian
thanks :)
Agreed, very nice. We’d use it (with credit in the library) if it were CC-0, but it can’t be used for our projects because it is non-commercial I guess.
yep. that obviously my mistake. I misinterpreted the wording of Non-Commercial. Of course it should be Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.