As production and distribution costs dwindle under Moore’s Law, Zoybar believe innovation, ideas and their application will become the most critical asset in the creative process, with collaboration being key to innovation. True to their manifesto, they offer a free, open-source language for open hardware architecture, providing both physical and virtual platforms for the development of new music instruments. The result is a modular hardware kit that can be combined into different homemade mashup instruments.

From an unusual contra bass to a guitar with a built-in delay pedal, Zoybar is a living testament to the power of community, collaboration and open-source innovation in decentralizing and democratizing the building blocks of an entire industry.

More from founder Ziv Bar Ilan over on Shareable.

Maria Popova is the editor of Brain Pickings, a curated inventory of miscellaneous interestingness. She writes for Wired UK, GOOD Magazine, Design Observer and Huffington Post, and spends a shameful amount of time on Twitter.