Some interesting controversies around the project.
Firstly my assumptions may be horribly wrong, but it seems that:
- Microduino(The company) is the suppliers of Microduino(s).
- They previously sold it to companies that would sell it to consumers, a example is Hobby Components.
- Starting with the Kick Starter project they started to warn prospective customers of companies that sells "fake" Microduino.
- zhouyisu, posted a link to a Chinese company(distributor/supplier?) that also sells it. Is theses Microduino fake?
Keeping the above in mind, arduino was designed with open hardware in mind. So you can easily get spinoff project like these.
But there is also a risk that other people will be able to work off your hard work, which I don't think is really wrong.
Because I believe value is not in the physical product but the support. So buy it from the cheapest company, but don't expect support from another company.
In regards to Microduino using kickstarter they way it is using it at the moment, I don't believe their doing something wrong. After all they are crowd-funding.
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Some interesting controversies around the project.
Firstly my assumptions may be horribly wrong, but it seems that:
- Microduino(The company) is the suppliers of Microduino(s).
- They previously sold it to companies that would sell it to consumers, a example is Hobby Components.
- Starting with the Kick Starter project they started to warn prospective customers of companies that sells "fake" Microduino.
- zhouyisu, posted a link to a Chinese company(distributor/supplier?) that also sells it. Is theses Microduino fake?
Keeping the above in mind, arduino was designed with open hardware in mind. So you can easily get spinoff project like these.
But there is also a risk that other people will be able to work off your hard work, which I don't think is really wrong.
Because I believe value is not in the physical product but the support. So buy it from the cheapest company, but don't expect support from another company.
In regards to Microduino using kickstarter they way it is using it at the moment, I don't believe their doing something wrong. After all they are crowd-funding.