source: http://bildr.org/

Abstract: Bildr is a project of open platform offering access to componentized instruction sets, “building blocks” for making various hardware and software constructions accessible to anybody.

The innovation process is based on a very detailed toolbox (i.e. subsystems; components; where to buy them; programmation scripts in different languages; etc) that allow non experts to assemble and combine them and progressively create a new electronic system while familiarizing at the same time with IT environments. Bildr is an attempt to integrate existing DIY electronic kits and the availability of functional pieces of information and know-how available in open source on the Internet into one semi formalized larger system of construction developed by the electronics DIY community itself.

Driver 

Social

Growing access to the creation of IT systems and application to larger share of the population

Technological

It participates to the current idea that technology can be break down into functional building blocks and recomposed as a gigantic lego…

Design / Art

New media artists encounter technical obstacles that don’t directly belong to their field; this projects seems specially dedicated to them.

Obstacle

Social

Bildr requires a lot of input from numerous knowledgeable people.

It also still requires to know exactly what it is needed to do what you want to do or to solve a specific problem?

Technological

The same concept of reducing the complexity of technology into building blocks limits innovation to one reductive partition of the reality.

Indication

Change in current innovation patterns

Information technology is a major driver of change in the everyday life of our society but unless other previous generation of technology (i.e. mechanics) it is not available for laymen. The trend of DIY electronic kits (i.e. PIC, Arduino) intends to free grassroots creativity making this powerful technology accessible to anybody.

Sector specifics / cultural specifics

Enabling large public to create electronic systems

Source

Internet

bildr.org/