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Re:BlueSCSI – Open, Low Cost, DIY SCSI to SD Device – Tinker... by bogantech on Saturday December 11, 2021 @04:22PM (#29524410)
> Making PCBs, soldering components, flashing roms, testing, selling and shipping hardware takes effort. This is true regardless of Open Hardware.

It's a lot easier to upload some zip files to JLCPCB, have them assemble it and then sell them on eBay for 4x the cost than it is to do the initial design.

It seems rare to get any contributions back to hw projects (either in pull requests etc or donations) so it's unsurprising when I see talented people give up or go with non commercial licenses.

The usefulness I find in open source projects is the ability to learn, fix things etc

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Re:BlueSCSI – Open, Low Cost, DIY SCSI to SD Device – Tinker... by rasz on Saturday December 11, 2021 @04:55PM (#29524628)
>It's a lot easier to upload some zip files to JLCPCB, have them assemble it and then sell them on eBay for 4x the cost than it is to do the initial design.

but the author of BlueSCSI didnt do that initial design

"BlueSCSI created by erichelgeson is a fork of ArdSCSino-stm32" https://github.com/erichelgeson/BlueSCSI

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Re:BlueSCSI – Open, Low Cost, DIY SCSI to SD Device – Tinker... by helfire on Saturday December 11, 2021 @11:14PM (#29527073)
I did do the initial design of this hardware. The ArdSCSino just mapped pins from the bluepill to a 50 pin header.
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Re:BlueSCSI – Open, Low Cost, DIY SCSI to SD Device – Tinker... by rasz on Sunday December 12, 2021 @08:23AM (#29529416)
'just mapped pins' is how one could describe a pcb :)

https://github.com/ztto/ArdSCSino-stm32/blob/master/ArdSCSin...

https://github.com/ztto/ArdSCSino-stm32/tree/master/gerber

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Re:BlueSCSI – Open, Low Cost, DIY SCSI to SD Device – Tinker... by helfire on Sunday December 12, 2021 @10:30AM (#29530359)
Ok. You may want to compare versions then. It seem you're very interested in it.
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Re:BlueSCSI – Open, Low Cost, DIY SCSI to SD Device – Tinker... by helfire on Saturday December 11, 2021 @11:17PM (#29527090)
> It seems rare to get any contributions back to hw projects (either in pull requests etc or donations) so it's unsurprising when I see talented people give up or go with non commercial licenses.

This is 100% true. Coming from a software side I was surprised that on the embedded and hardware side everyone just forks. I did try to contact the original arscsino project to contribute back but at the time it was idle and I got no response.

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