Just came across this Pixhawk clone, so thought I would share.
http://witespyquad.gostorego.com/flight-controllers/rtfhawk-2-4.html
Ready to Fly Quads is a reputable distributor, and I have made a few purchases from them already. They already have a clone of the APM2.x, that has been somewhat successful. Will this new clone be just as good. for under $100USD, might be work a try.
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about the precise german customs office. it seems they xray every single package. in my customs office there is even a rc guy who invited me to visit his flying club. they do their homework for sure.
Well, in Germany e.g. you have to go to customs to pick up your package and take an invoice with you. They will also ask you what it is. In theory, every officer in those centers is supposed to know the "black list".
The German customs is *so* precise - they actually seized and destroyed/returned Pebble smartwatches because they were lacking "a product-unique mark and model identifier" as well as "unit-unique serial numbers".
If you know how to play the game, you can make customs protect your business pretty efficiently!
I'm not saying that they will catch all but probably enough to make it hurt plus imagine if a private buyer gets charged for importing counterfeit products... That would go around in the RC forums immediately and probably additionally deter potential buyers.
In Europe, one of the primary tasks of customs is to seize and destroy illegal product copies. If you do the paperwork and get a court order, customs will seize every clone shipment they can find and the recipient will be charged with attempting to import counterfeit products. And in a number of countries, like Germany, practically every shipment from outside-EU is caught by customs and inspected, so...
You could definitely create a serious impact on the cloners' incomes which might make the production of clones unprofitable because in the end, clone production only pays off if you can get big amounts to the people.
CC-BY-NC is fairly often seen among grassroots composers because if you want to put their music to you home video, you can, but if a big Hollywood studio wants to use their music, they have to negotiate.
For hardware: CC-BY-NC.
Allows everybody to make your board for personal use but does not allow commercial use. Means, everybody who wants to produce your design commercially would have to negotiate a secondary license with you.
Monroe, what in the world are you on about?
Arduino = Processing IDE + avr-gcc + simple and easy to use function library for beginners.
The Processing.org IDE has no connection to Atmel what so ever, and they are all community driven projects.
The "Arduino" part is really just that last part. A small library of pre-made AVR functions made to be used by beginners. A simple library compared to for example the older established avr-libc. So you see, there was not much work that had to be done to get the Arduino base system up and running. And thanks to the simple to use IDE combined with good timing and low priced hardware it then exploded in popularity. This lead to community members contributing more drivers for external hardware, which again helped feeding the popularity even more.
What Atmel can take credit for it creating low cost 8-bit hardware optimized to be used with high-level C compilers. PIC never understood that hand written assembler was dead, until much to late in the game.
And Parallax has always been the weird duckling offering products that are too niche and often more educational then practical.
... and of course the marketing... Atmel never marketed their products explicitly to hobbyists or published a ton of easy to follow beginner's howtos :).
Yes, it was...
As I said, PICs are around at least since the mid-90s and their toolchain was available. And somewhen I think in 2003 or 2004 I bought an Atmel USBISP Mk. II and could download AtmelStudio for free from Atmels website.
The Arduino project didn't start before 2005 and became really successful - when - 2008?
The toolchain is not the success of Arduino. The success of Arduino is the combination of boards which make tinkering easy, shields and that everything works together and has a great support system.
For success, the toolchain doesn't need to be OSS as long as it's free.
...if somebody finds a really easy way to program those things... I never could wrap my head around them.
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