You can even embed "open source electronics," which is stuff like generic switches, boards, and wiring.
What do you get when you mix Christmas lights, massively intelligent cubicle dwellers, Python, open source electronics, and a Guitar Hero controller?
The last four decades have seen an explosion of open architecture electronics, computers, social media, modular operating systems, sensors, communication links, etc., all based on standardized highly certified and cost effective modules provided by a responsive supply chain.
We're all familiar with open-source software, such as the Apache webserver or the Linux OS, but in the last few years, open-source hardware projects have risen in popularity, including the open-source electronics platform Arduino.
Amazon opened an electronics trade-in store last May.
SparkFun, an open-source electronics manufacturer, sells circuit boards and microcontrollers that makers can use to power custom projects.
EBay Inc., the world's biggest Internet auctioneer, has opened an electronics store and will offer free shipping for products including DVD players and video cameras.
The squabble between Best Buy and its founder, Richard M. Schulze, appears, for the moment, to center on one basic matter: the terms of opening the electronics retailer's books for due diligence.
Recently I tried to buy an iPhone in Nehru Place, an open-air electronics market in Delhi where goods that "happen to fall off a truck" are sold for 30%, 40% or 70% discounts – whatever cash you have handy.
