https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/7b04cc20-5e61-4608-a116-4595b8b9e1fc We live in an era where technology, especially as shipped by large companies, can be an inscrutable black box to the end user. Your smart phone arrives in your life as a fully formed slab of glass and silicon: something meant to be used, but not understood. This kind of technology diminishes users' agency and disempowers them from using the technology on their own terms. The Open Book is an open hardware e-book reader that can be built from scratch and understood, at least in broad strokes, by the average user. In this talk I'll walk through strategies that I've used when designing both the Open Book and other open hardware projects, to make objects that open themselves up not just to the developers that work on them, but to the users that work with them. Speaker: Joey Castillo, Track: Open Hardware and CAD/CAM devroom, Room: H.1308 (Rolin), When: Sunday 4 February 2024, 10:00–10:20 (Brussels time), Schedule: FOSDEM 2024 event page, Slides & links Slides, Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive). Attribution: “Comprehensible Open Hardware: Building the Open Book” by Joey Castillo, FOSDEM 2024. Original recording: 2024/h1308/fosdem-2024-2913-comprehensible-open-hardware-building-the-open-book.av1.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. Sun, 25 Oct 2026 01:58:30 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.watch https://peertube.watch/lazy-static/avatars/3b284627-b75f-409e-ac2e-10f4c2946f43.png https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/7b04cc20-5e61-4608-a116-4595b8b9e1fc All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.watch/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.