On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 23:26 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > Crap, they didn't get enough money :( > > They should try http://pledgie.com
Not sure this would be any more successful... open hardware geeks are cheap, period! Anything significantly more expensive or complicated to build than an AVR breakout has little chance of working with them. No geek would build that CNC machine. It's too expensive (and lacks the romantic cliché of "I build cool stuff with scrap parts that the evil consumer society carelessly throws away") and it's too complicated. IMO the Qi Hardware goal and approach is good: mass produce professional open devices that could be made cheap, while still allowing the minority of companies and people who are interested in the open design to benefit from it. It's the normal - and proven - hardware industry upgraded to the age of the copyleft and Internet :) S. _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
