makezine.com: Owner's Manifesto:
The Maker's Bill of Rights
*Meaningful and specific parts lists shall be included.
*Cases shall be easy to open.
*Batteries should be replaceable.
*Special tools are allowed only for darn good reasons.
*Profiting by selling expensive special tools is wrong and not making special tools available is even worse.
*Torx is OK; tamperproof is rarely OK.
*Components, not entire sub-assemblies, shall be replaceable.
*Consumables, like fuses and filters, shall be easy to access.
*Circuit boards shall be commented.
*Power from USB is good; power from proprietary power adapters is bad.
*Standard connecters shall have pinouts defined.
*If it snaps shut, it shall snap open.
*Screws better than glues.
*Docs and drivers shall have permalinks and shall reside for all perpetuity at archive.org.
*Ease of repair shall be a design ideal, not an afterthought.
*Metric or standard, not both.
*Schematics shall be included.
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