arc two (two knobs) $500
arc four (four knobs) $800
Ordering February 18, and I predict a very quick sellout. Shipping in March.
More info here.
heh. 'arc two'
brian's response to a predictable question from cdm about what constitutes 'true open source hardware':
i’m slightly ambivalent about the label “open source hardware.” it’s come to mean more than simply having the sources available, which was my original goal. people should absolutely know how their equipment works and be able to modify it if desired. it’s turned into a different conversation, about freedom– the most anonymous free-market sort of freedom. and this is a good conversation to have, but it somehow left the realm of sharing and went somewhere else.
i wish more people were interested in discussing resource use, materials, and local economics– these are very real issues concerning physical goods. the open source hardware debate seems to have inherited too much from the open source software ideology.
Bravo.
As predicted, some are balking at the price. It is just a box with
I don't agree that larger quantities are necessarily better. Small is beautiful.
I also like the fact that people are having a difficult time imagining how they'd use it. Myself, I feel the same way about the arc as I did the original monome years ago. My first thought is "OH YEAH. I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I'D DO WITH THAT.
