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Oh wow, Bunnie and Sean Cross's Precursor is 96% funded. Maybe it'll make it. Good for them.

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www.crowdsupply.comWhat’s the Value of Hackable Hardware, Anyway?There is plenty of skepticism around the value of hackable products. Significantly, hackability is different from openness: cars are closed-source, yet support vibrant modding communities; gcc is one of the “real OG”s of open source, but few users find it easy to extend or enhance. Is it better to have a garden planted by the most knowledgeable botanists and maintained by experienced gardeners, or an open plot of land maintained by whoever has the interest and time? In this update, we explore these issues in the context of Precursor.
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This should be a movement with all products: "With Precursor, I’m bringing screws back."

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"As long as humans choose to embrace diversity, I think hackability will have value. ... Fortunately, accommodating the wonderfully diverse, quirky, and interesting range of humanity implicates just a few simple engineering principles, such as embracing screws over adhesives, openness, and modularity. That we can’t hack our products isn’t a limitation of physics and engineering. Precursor demonstrates one can build something simultaneously secure and hackable..."

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I really hope so. It, and the follow on, Betrusted, is a great example of how to do real . Very few other projects come anywhere near as close.

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