I would like to encourage people who decide to make such adapter boards to make the PCB build files and CAD files available OPEN SOURCED, in the spirit of the way this project is being run. That way people can also take advantage of it.
The idea of open source is to encourage these such improvements, which overall improves the Pilotaware units making it better for all.
As an RF electronics engineer I'm happy to offer a review of the circuit designs where I can.
Rgds
Andy Fell
Hi All,
I see where Andy is coming from here.
I am a little more sanguine about this to be perfectly honest.
So long as the interfaces remain Free and Open (eg RF),
and there is an Open Reference Hardware Platform to which any further improvement conforms,
eg a shield for an ARF, RPi Compute version, ...
then I have no problem with anybody making developments for commercial gain.
I think anyone spending time, effort and money should have the opportunity to be recompensed for their work.What I am totally against, are attempts to thwart further efforts of improvement or integration,
through the use of exclusivity & secrecy, eg I would not be in favour of a compatible
version with FLARM, if the method of interaction with the FLARM system were not published
somewhere for all to see.
Remember the mantra : Free Speech not Free Beer
Thx
Lee
(PS, just so there is no confusion, I will not refuse free beer)