Hi all. I'm not too clued up on the various licenses things are released under and wondered if for example I was to take the PCB design off this site and modify it, could I sell that as my own or would ladyada need to be paid 'royalties'? I was thinking of looking at the possibility of re-designing certain bits to work around the obsolete part problem. Personally, I don't know that much about electronics, but I work at a company which produces various types of electronics equipment as well as having all the necessary scopes, multimeters, power supplies etc. We've also got design engineers that would be willing to spare me some time.
Anyway, just a thought. It'd probably never happen anyway!
Legal situation regarding selling your own kit.
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Re: Legal situation regarding selling your own kit.
Well I don't really think that is a "problem". If you do that, you'll just end up making a novation bass station or any of the other clones that never actually sounded much like the 303, because they used different parts....the amazing thing about the x0x is how good of a clone it is...if you change the design to replace the obsolete hardware, you'll have a cheaper, easier to build box, that won't sound like a 303 anymore!jonnyfatman wrote: re-designing certain bits to work around the obsolete part problem.
So do you work for PAIA or is your name just a coincidence?jonnyfatman wrote: Personally, I don't know that much about electronics, but I work at a company which produces various types of electronics equipment
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Sorry, I don't know who PAIA is, so yes that must be a coincidence. I work for a small electronics manufacturer based in the UK.evilxsystems wrote:So do you work for PAIA or is your name just a coincidence?jonnyfatman wrote: Personally, I don't know that much about electronics, but I work at a company which produces various types of electronics equipment
-jason
Surely there's no harm in fiddling about with alternative parts tho. Even if you end up with something that sounds completely different to a 303, it will still be an interesting sound!
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Re: Legal situation regarding selling your own kit.
evilxsystems wrote:jonnyfatman wrote:So do you work for PAIA or is your name just a coincidence?jonnyfatman wrote: Personally, I don't know that much about electronics, but I work at a company which produces various types of electronics equipment
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I would have guessed not after the "I don't know about electronics" bit. But hey, I guess somebody there has to answer the phones!
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Re: Legal situation regarding selling your own kit.
Easy tiger I don't answer the phones, I'm the Production Engineer.mome rath wrote:evilxsystems wrote:jonnyfatman wrote: So do you work for PAIA or is your name just a coincidence?
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I would have guessed not after the "I don't know about electronics" bit. But hey, I guess somebody there has to answer the phones!
I've done an engineering degree and plenty of electronics modules within that. Plus I'm damn good at soldering. Just because I don't know everything does not mean I cannot learn.
Personally, I find it much easier to learn things by fiddling with parameters and seeing what happens. That's the whole reason why I signed up to the waiting list for x0xb0x kits.
If this is some sort of elitist club of secretive electronics whizzkids, then perhaps I shouldn't have signed up.
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Re: Legal situation regarding selling your own kit.
the secret handshake involves a joybuzzerjonnyfatman wrote: If this is some sort of elitist club of secretive electronics whizzkids, then perhaps I shouldn't have signed up.
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