Originally Posted by
bjones
I don't see ripping off the idea of someone else as one of the categories. booooo
Very hard to create unique products these days, almost everything that can be done, in one form or another has already been done. All you really see now is usually just cosmetic variations of existing designs. I saw a kickstarter campaign recently where a guy came up with a metal fishbone for securing cables without having to tie knots in them, he was going through the process of patenting the design, I couldn't work out how he could do that given these things have been around for decades, and even Leonardo daVince had similar designs hundreds of years ago. Just maybe not made out of titanium though.
I recall a similar argument here a year or two back, a guy had built a particularly pretty 3 axis machine, and another guy was accused of copying his design. Well, there's only so many ways you can build a 3 axis moving gantry machine, and they will all just end up variations of the same mechanical design in the end.
cheers, Ian
It's rumoured that everytime someone buys a TB6560 based board, an engineer cries!