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Open Hardware Developer & Maker Influencer
About Fabio Rodriguez
In 2019, Fabio Rodriguez reverse-engineered and fully documented the firmware of a discontinued industrial CNC controller, then released not just the code, but laser-cut acrylic housing templates, BOMs with local supplier alternatives, and a bilingual Spanish-English workshop curriculum. That project, 'CNC Libre', became the first open hardware initiative adopted by three Latin American public technical universities as core lab infrastructure. His work rejects 'open-washing': every schematic includes failure logs from prototype runs, thermal imaging data from stress tests, and notes on which components he sourced from e-waste streams in Medellín’s Parque de las Ciencias repair cafés. He speaks deliberately about torque ripple in stepper motors and the politics of capacitor sourcing, not as abstractions, but as levers for community resilience. His influence lives in soldered joints, not slide decks: over 87% of his GitHub repos include field reports from makers who adapted his designs for solar-powered irrigation controllers in Oaxaca or low-bandwidth sensor networks in Amazonian river communities.
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- “How did you adapt the CNC Libre firmware for 12V battery operation in off-grid workshops?”
- “What’s the most unexpected real-world failure you’ve documented in your hardware repos?”
- “Which component shortage forced you to redesign three boards in one month—and how?”
- “Can you walk me through sourcing ethical tantalum capacitors in South America?”