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    <title>DigitalFreedoms &amp;mdash; Paul Sutton</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 13:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[HFD&#xA;&#xA;HFD&#xA;&#xA;Next date: Saturday, 19 April 2025&#xA;&#xA;Hardware Freedom Day celebrates the benefits of Open Hardware and Open Hardware design initiatives.  Imagine what we could do if medical and technical hardware was inexpensive and accessible to manufacture for everyone needing these tools.&#xA;&#xA;Hardware Freedom Day&#xA;Digital Freedom Foundation - Matrix&#xA;Open Hardware -  Matrix&#xA;  Open Risc - Matrix&#xA;  Tinkerboard&#xA;  Arduino&#xA;  Pine64 - Matrix&#xA;ARM Programming - Matrix&#xA;Matrix&#xA;&#xA;Stickers&#xA;&#xA;There are a few stickers in the Discovery Centre, which is at the back of the STEAM Café, 13 Torbay Road, Paignton.  &#xA;&#xA;Tags&#xA;&#xA;#OpenHardware,#HardwareFreedomDay,#HFD,#DFF,#Risc,#RiscV,#Tinker,#Arduino,#Pine64&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
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<p>Next date: Saturday, 19 April 2025</p>

<p>Hardware Freedom Day celebrates the benefits of Open Hardware and Open Hardware design initiatives.  Imagine what we could do if medical and technical hardware was inexpensive and accessible to manufacture for everyone needing these tools.</p>
<ul><li><a href="https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/" rel="nofollow">Hardware Freedom Day</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digitalfreedoms.org" rel="nofollow">Digital Freedom Foundation</a> – <a href="https://matrix.to/#/%23digitalfreedoms:matrix.org" rel="nofollow">Matrix</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware" rel="nofollow">Open Hardware</a> –  <a href="https://matrix.to/#/%23openhardware:aria-net.org" rel="nofollow">Matrix</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://openrisc.io/" rel="nofollow">Open Risc</a> – <a href="https://matrix.to/#/%23risc-v:fossi-chat.org" rel="nofollow">Matrix</a></li>
<li><a href="https://tinker-board.asus.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">Tinkerboard</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.arduino.cc/" rel="nofollow">Arduino</a></li>
<li><a href="https://pine64.org/" rel="nofollow">Pine64</a> – <a href="https://matrix.to/#/%23pine64-announcements:matrix.org" rel="nofollow">Matrix</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/assembler-programming" rel="nofollow">ARM Programming</a> – <a href="https://matrix.to/#/%23asm:nil.im" rel="nofollow">Matrix</a></li>
<li><a href="https://matrix.org/" rel="nofollow">Matrix</a></li></ul>

<p><strong>Stickers</strong></p>

<p>There are a few stickers in the Discovery Centre, which is at the back of the STEAM Café, 13 Torbay Road, Paignton.</p>

<p><strong>Tags</strong></p>

<p><a href="/paulsutton/tag:OpenHardware" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">OpenHardware</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:HardwareFreedomDay" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">HardwareFreedomDay</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:HFD" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">HFD</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:DFF" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">DFF</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Risc" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Risc</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:RiscV" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">RiscV</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Tinker" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Tinker</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Arduino" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Arduino</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Pine64" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Pine64</span></a></p>

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      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>What is Free Software ? Explained in 3 minutes</title>
      <link>https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/what-is-free-software-s128</link>
      <description>&lt;![CDATA[What is Free Software ? Explained in 3 minutes&#xA;&#xA;Really good video to explain what free software and the ideas behind the movement.&#xA;&#xA;iframe title=&#34;What is Free Software?&#34; src=&#34;https://media.fsfe.org/video-playlists/embed/43045073-4523-4807-bd1b-6c91dcee981c&#34; allowfullscreen=&#34;&#34; sandbox=&#34;allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups&#34; width=&#34;560&#34; height=&#34;315&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34;/iframe&#xA;&#xA;Links&#xA;&#xA;FSFE&#xA;&#xA;Tags&#xA;&#xA;#FreeSoftware,#FSFE,#Video,#Explanation,#DigitalFreedoms,#Use,Study,&#xA;#Share,#Improve&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
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<p>Really good video to explain what free software and the ideas behind the movement.</p>

<iframe src="https://media.fsfe.org/video-playlists/embed/43045073-4523-4807-bd1b-6c91dcee981c" allowfullscreen="" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe>

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<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Share" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Share</span></a>,<a href="/paulsutton/tag:Improve" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Improve</span></a></p>

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      <pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2023 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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