Building a maker community around an open hardware platform

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Building a maker community around an open hardware platform

This paper reflects on the dynamics and practices of building a maker community around a new hardware platform. We ex- amine the factors promoting the successful uptake of a maker platform from two perspectives: first, we investigate the tech- nical and user experience considerations that users iden...

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Main Authors:	Morreale, Fabio, Moro, Giulio, Chamberlain, Alan, Benford, Steve, McPherson, Andrew P.
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Published:	ACM Press 2017
Subjects:	Maker community DIY crowdfunding embedded hardware digital musical instruments pluggable communities
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41912/

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