Luka MustafaInterview
Hardware hacker (KORUZA, GoodEnoughCNC)
Adapted from Luka Mustafa's interview on Uses This, published 29 March 2016. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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Currently I'm a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow, working full-time on development of the wireless optical system KORUZA at Institute IRNAS Rače in Slovenia that I founded in 2014.
Workshop CNC machines: First and second generation Troublemaker 3D printers - these have proven to be workhorses, running constantly over the past two years, about 100 hours a week.
Electronics dev hardware: The complete range of open source, open hardware utilities like Bus Pirate, and a number of other open source tools, completed with generally available oscilloscopes and power supplies.
A large box of Arduino and other open hardware platforms is a part of the toolset - just picking what works best for the particular task.
Communication
Coding & Development
Open source documentation for the projects is all located on GitHub, as the workflow is simple enough for anyone to use, not just software devs, while simultaneously offering web hosting and thus direct user commits to a live set of instructions or websites about open projects.
Design
Other
Computer equipment: A random mix of old PCs scattered around, mostly running Windows to control various CNC machines, a few up-to-date PCs and laptops for CAD design work, and a lightweight laptop running Ubuntu for networking and software development.