2011/4/8 [email protected] <[email protected]>: > Yeah, you can see in his comment he threw out the idea even of open > source after he didn't raise enough money. Still great to get the > plans. > > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Sebastien Bourdeauducq > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > Totally. I still would like to see other hardware from others go up on > qi-hardware site. UBB? ATBEN? ATUSB? :P > > Jon > > > > -- > Jon Phillips > http://rejon.org/ | http://fabricatorz.com/ > chat/skype: kidproto | irc: rejon > +1.415.830.3884 (global) | +1-510-499-0894 (sf) > +86-187-1003-9974 (beijing) > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
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