On 02/05/2010 08:17 PM, Don Fanning wrote: > Good for you to support the project at an early stage. But what > happens when your project won't fit into the square form factor? What > if you have this great idea but can only fit into the form factor of > say a cell phone... then what? I'm not the only one with the same > idea... Look at the beagleboard guys doing their USRP work. Then you take the schematic-capture and BOM files (which are hard to get at the moment, I'll give you). You run the auto-routing, which, in my experience, takes care of 85-95% of the task, and you have a board layout in your new "squeezed" format. In fact, the existing PCB files are nearly-useless for taking the existing layout and squeezing it into a new form factor--particularly one as dramatic as the existing square board and packing into a cellphone format. There'll be virtually 100% "rip-up and re-route". >> Seems to me that the only people really affected by such a decision are >> those who want to put >> *zero* effort into exact-cloning his work. If the *real* reason is >> that you want to "integrate pieces of >> the design into your own product", then *everything* you need is >> already openly available. >> Implying otherwise is disingenuous in the extreme. >> >> >> >> > I give Matt major props for developing the hardware, I really do... > The rest of you are just appliance users. > What a lovely "appliance" it is, too. But really? The *dozens* of core developers of Gnu Radio who've built an entire eco-system around USRP1/2? They're "just appliance users"? Oh yeah, right. Hardware is hard, and software is easy.
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