[llama_person]

One more opinion here: if you're looking around and nobody else has something obviously working, it's ok not to do a thorough search through hundreds of papers hoping to find someone else who came up with the idea. Get it working first, show it off, and if someone comes claiming it was their idea, respectfully acknowledge the prior work. But there's a gigantic gap between "wrote it in a paper" and "actually got it working".

Also, awesome job! Thanks for writing up some seriously cool engineering.

[fennecbutt]

>But there's a gigantic gap between "wrote it in a paper" and "actually got it working".

The modern patent system in a nutshell. It's now suits registering patents rather than inventors in their workshops.