“The ‘open hive’ of global connected home hobby labs is a hotbed of innovation, where low capital investment and rapid prototyping thrive without the constraints of traditional corporate approvals.
This dynamic environment contrasts the ‘you can’t do that’ mentality. With 57 years of experience in Building Automation, we’ve repeatedly observed this pattern: the rise of low-cost hardware, driven by individual innovators in home labs, mirroring the growth of Direct Digital Control. These pioneers, embracing open standards, became industry leaders. Now, two decades later, our global hive of innovators exploring the very essence of this success—the power of open hardware combined with open software.
Our contributing editors created this session to discuss the power of open hardware in 2019.
The panel of Brad White, Nicolas Waern, Calvin Slater, and Zach Nestov laid out their concepts of the next generation of Open Hardware and Open Software to a standing room only crowd at their session at the 2019 AHR EXPO. The opinions from the attendees were remarkably candid and often contrary to the panel’s as the transformative changes disrupting the BAS industry naturally set many of the old-school traditionalists’ viewpoints at odds with the extraordinary economic implications of espousing open (free) hardware and software.
Here, Calvin is holding two Linux pieces of hardware he envisioned to be a part of every piece of our HVAC equipment
Part of what our sponsors allow is for us to troll social media and share links that we think are interesting. Here are a few LinkedIn posts that were well-received
automatedbuildings.com contributing editor from the past is still creating the future, read this LinkedIn post, meet the folks from the home hive. Calvin U R an inspiration to us all, would love to have you back as Contributing Editor but do not want to curb your creativity.
One of my never-ending hobby projects. Throwing it out there so anyone can use. Will add software and other updates whenever there is time.
“Baking a BACBerryPi” on the edge connected with Linux
“Baked BACBerryPi”. This is a Great resource Jordan Day. Thank you for your share. We love to see what AutomatedBuildings.com started many years ago https://lnkd.in/gzgbNvGP
Standing Room Only Session –> Next Generation HVAC Controls: Open Hardware – Open Software
By Eric Stromquist January 21, 2019 Thanks, Calvin Slater, for your vision and contributions to the dream
as our contributing editor https://lnkd.in/gu8QneBq
Why is this important? You are creating the platforms for edge AI
