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Re: "Open Source" Drive Systems
There are a few simple ways to make this work...
1) Create detail-less prints that can be downloaded as PWF's basically exploding the components (say a gearbox), the prints would show how the component works which would spark imagination for replication. I'm sorry but if Andy Mark gave detail-less prints and said "copy this exactly" it would be near impossible, which leads to difference and ingenuity. What they would have to do would be to take the prints, and create their own versions, using parts that would be easy to acquire.
2) Would be to create some sort of "read-only" file that you couldn't copy or modify. That would let the individual be able to virtually see it and take it apart. This way might lead to the system being hacked though, but I doubt that CAD files are #1 on the list for stuff to be hacked.
This does sound like a good idea, and I would love to be involved somehow.
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