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Re: TI and future Jaguars

Here's what's not in the interest of a large company selling the Jaguar:

To teach sufficient process to compete with them.
To explore prototyping.
To teach electronics.

A community project touches on all of those points in a way that would be almost financially irresponsible to a large company. Sure even the community project won't be a level playing field for you if you can't solder. However, it won't also encourage those who can solder to sit around slapping the only choice on the robot because they are not welcome to do otherwise or you might have dusty stock.

The fact that the current 2 choice community feels the need to polarize on a choice means that too many people feel they can find sufficient weakness in the Jaguar product to advocate over it what is basically a large RC car speed control. The core reason to replicate the Jaguar, cause it's already here and you don't have to think too much (in fact if the community does the reverse engineering and fixing a very few people will have to think cause only they will get the prize).

What's the prize of deciding what you want to learn worth?

To me it's worth getting the community project going even if it's not big business. No one can ignore that I've already started putting my money where my mouth is.

If the Jaguar is worth so much to those who walk that path don't tear us down when *we* are part of the target market, just go prove that's it's so easy for the big business and do it. Maybe tearing us down is easier than getting big business to do this?

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