3DPrinting
3DPrinting is a place where makers of all skill levels and walks of life can learn about and discuss 3D printing and development of 3D printed parts and devices.
The r/functionalprint community is now located at: or !functionalprint@fedia.io
There are CAD communities available at: !cad@lemmy.world or !freecad@lemmy.ml
Rules
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No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
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Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.
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No porn (NSFW prints are acceptable but must be marked NSFW)
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No Ads / Spamming / Guerrilla Marketing
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Do not create links to reddit
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If you see an issue please flag it
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No guns
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No injury gore posts
If you need an easy way to host pictures, https://catbox.moe/ may be an option. Be ethical about what you post and donate if you are able or use this a lot. It is just an individual hosting content, not a company. The image embedding syntax for Lemmy is 
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So I make a pile of sticks, that pile of sticks is open source? No.
You are confusing using open source tools with being an open source project. Using open source tools is great as a user, but it does not make what you do with them open source, whether it makes the activity legal or not. Publishing the design of the tool to be replicable by others is what made that tool open source in the first place for you to use.
It is the difference between "I built this house out of bricks woth my open-source backhoe" and "I built this house out of bricks this way, and here is how you can do it the same way". Neither one is illegal, but one is an open source project and the other is just permissible under the law.
Public Domain =/= Open Source either.
Open source software only applies to software. Open source hardware, as OC mentioned, does not imply documentation, as long as all components are replicable, and readily available.
"Open source hardware is hardware whose design is made publicly available so that anyone can study, modify, distribute, make, and sell the design or hardware based on that design. The hardware’s source, the design from which it is made, is available in the preferred format for making modifications to it." - https://oshwa.org/resources/open-source-hardware-definition/