Monome is such a fascinating example of sustainable open source ecosystem around a hardware product.<p>Their entire software stack is open-source, and the community contributes an incredible amount. Just take a look at the release notes for the latest norns update [0].<p>The software itself is also just of a really high quality, especially the balance between accessibility and power. The norns runs lua scripts that interact with a bunch of specific APIs for making sounds, interacting with hardware, or drawing the UI. It's incredibly quick to get started, but folks have made some <i>wild</i> scripts[1]<p>[0]: <a href="https://llllllll.co/t/norns-update-201023-201029/37646" rel="nofollow">https://llllllll.co/t/norns-update-201023-201029/37646</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://llllllll.co/t/arcologies-v1-2-5/35752" rel="nofollow">https://llllllll.co/t/arcologies-v1-2-5/35752</a>