Hi, as far as I am aware, Erik is developping this for Ultimaker.
That's what I fond out from what he said, so I am not speaking on his behalf ;-)
They (ultimaker) wish to dustribute the electronics first when Erik releases it, in turn they compensate for development cost. Erik doesn't have a problem with open sourcing it, but since noone has the hardware yet, he does not see a reason why he should release the code so far.
So since helping him is out of option at the moment, I guess all we can do at the moment is wait.
But still, it would be great from Erik to maybe update us a little on the progress and maybe he even re-thinks his decission and releases schematics and code, I believe that following the open hardware idea, people are willing to get the hardware done themselves and contribute in development.. That would be awesome!
That's what I fond out from what he said, so I am not speaking on his behalf ;-)
They (ultimaker) wish to dustribute the electronics first when Erik releases it, in turn they compensate for development cost. Erik doesn't have a problem with open sourcing it, but since noone has the hardware yet, he does not see a reason why he should release the code so far.
So since helping him is out of option at the moment, I guess all we can do at the moment is wait.
But still, it would be great from Erik to maybe update us a little on the progress and maybe he even re-thinks his decission and releases schematics and code, I believe that following the open hardware idea, people are willing to get the hardware done themselves and contribute in development.. That would be awesome!