If you posted your design as Open Source, someone else producing it
isn't a knockoff, it's the system working as intended.
-- Chris
I remember a talk by LadyADA of Adafruit at HOPE about starting a company
making open source hardware and success and all that. It's easy if you
have the marketing and big revenue stream, but eventually people will copy
the designs. Also there are cases where multiple people have the same
idea, I have projects that I started and didn't finish but I bet if I look
around someone else has made the same thing and filled in the gaps.
The first XT-IDE I ever came across was on I think a Chinese site called
Seed Studio. From memory it was a single CPLD (I think?) and EPROM, it was
a pretty sexy design but I've never seen them in the wild. I reached out
to them and they said they would produce them. Later I found out about
other ones and own some of the Glitchworks ones and have bought a few of
the TexElec ones for special laptops (Tandy 1400FD / Yamaha C1.)
Also, big HP versus USB logic analyzer. I had one of those old HP logic
analyzers a while ago and it was really slow. Way easier to use the USB
ones when it comes to portability and software speed. Plus easier to store
captures, share data without a GPIB plotter, etc.
I have one of the DSLogic ones and it does what I need, and as I recally
there is a hack where you can solder in a SMD DRAM IC and expand the
memory (upgrading it DIY to a higher model) if one cares to. Don't know if
it's a clone, didn't research it that hard. Sold the HP years ago, never
up-paid for the Rigol with the logic analyzer functions since the USB ones
were so much cheaper in comparison.
--
: Ethan O'Toole
