[snvzz]

Making PCBs, soldering components, flashing roms, testing, selling and shipping hardware takes effort. This is true regardless of Open Hardware.

I therefore do not see anything wrong with selling Open Hardware.

As everybody can do this, the hardware itself is commoditized, and society at large does benefit.

[bogantech]

> 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

[rasz]

>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

[helfire]

I did do the initial design of this hardware. The ArdSCSino just mapped pins from the bluepill to a 50 pin header.

[rasz]

'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

[helfire]

Ok. You may want to compare versions then. It seem you're very interested in it.

[helfire]

> 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.