Michael Weinberg

This is a simple project to visualize the surface of the earth with a LED matrix.

It's that time of the year triennial cycle again...

Last month the Engelberg Center released Unbalanced Interests: How the § 1201 Process Ate Itself (also hosted on this site).

A dispute about a python library called chardet may be an early rumble of an earthquake in the world of open source software (OSS) and intellectual property law.

This post is a handy reference for the technical reasons why requiring 3D printers to screen for gun parts is not an effective way to reduce guns or gun violence.

This post was originally going to be a legal analysis of the Open Community License released by the 3D printer company Prusa Labs right before Christmas.

Earlier this month, Arduino announced a new Arduino Uno Q board as part of its acquisition by Qualcomm.

What are the most popular open source hardware licenses?

The Italian Competition and Market Authority is currently investigating behavior in Italy’s textbook industry.

What does competition in the world of music look like without copyright?

Trying to decide which open hardware license to use?

Last week the GLAM-E Lab released a new report Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline?.

A team just announced the release of the Common Pile, a large dataset for training large language models (LLMs).

Moving from NYC to Berlin gave me an excuse to update my old Pi-Powered MTA Subway Alerts project for the BVG.

I made a bot that automatically translates bluesky tweets* from a list of accounts into english.

This post originally appeared on the Engelberg Center blog Today the GLAM-E Lab, a collaborative project between the Engelberg Center and the University of Exeter (UK), is releasing a number of tools and resources for the open GLAM (Galleries, Libraries,…

This week Prusa Research, once one of the most prominent commercial members of the open source hardware community, announced its latest 3D printer.

Last summer I submitted a request that the Copyright Office renew an existing rule that allows users to break DRM that prevents them from using materials of their choice in 3D printers.

Licensing deals between AI companies and large publishers may be bad for pretty much everyone, especially everyone who does not directly receive a check from them.

It feels like any time I have a conversation about attributing data used to train AI models, the completely understandable impulse to want attribution starts to break when confronted with some practical implementation questions.