But the barriers are going: technology and information are freely accessible, hardware is cheap and people are passionate about better quality of life.
Recent technological developments made various many-core hardware platforms widely accessible.
Developers, meanwhile, get a reasonably accessible hardware platform on which to test their programs.
For Apple's part, the offering brings Music to much more accessible hardware.
It is known that many products, both software and hardware, are not accessible to large sections of the population.
However, small cells can be particularly prone to failures (due to its more accessible hardware, use of non-dedicated backhaul, etc).
Enter Flotilla: another electronics education project aiming to build on the Pi's foundation, and make hardware tinkering more accessible to non-engineers.
Last October, the company separated the Lyve mobile app from the company's hardware, making it accessible to more users – even if they didn't purchase a Lyve hardware device, they could still use the app.
In terms of the podcast, we're making it because we think there's an important story to tell about the change that's happened in the past few years with indie hardware becoming more accessible.
Unfurl the Sails The Daydream platform is a potential game changer for Virtual Reality, uniting a standard interface with affordable, accessible hardware and exclusive content.
