Within a week I received a letter from HS1982 (the company who did that airport installation). Hackaday: building a giant meta-clock made of smaller clocks (Source: Hackaday) For everyone else, I pointed to the company web store. I did make it clear that I won’t sell anything, but I made the PCB data available but without the Gerber files, so others could start learning. I published a blog article about the build, to document it and to give everyone credit, including the company which installed that thing in the airport of Singapore. To check the concept and to prepare the lab material, I started developing a PCB, electronics and software. Students would be tasked to build such a system, get it interconnected and synchronized. Not that hard and difficult to build, good for a ‘distributed system’ lecture. It was a perfect example for the ‘Advanced Distributed Systems’ lecture and lab at the Lucerne University: obviously a larger distributed system which can be implemented with small stepper motors and microcontrollers on a bus system. So here is the story behind this: when I saw this installation at the Singapore airport, I was intrigued about that idea and concept. It is *not* about patents which yet is another (even more complex) thing. Instructables copied by ‘splogs’ (spam blogs): Īnd this article is about the topic of ‘copyright’ (with the extension to ‘design’).If this is what you are interested in, I have a short list of links for you: It is NOT about if someone is using your work without permission, and not about what content you can freely use from the from the web or internet. This article is about the case a company (or someone else) is accusing you about a ‘copyright infringement’ for a project you did. And things might be different for you compared to the situation in Switzerland. ![]() Keep in mind that for any law there is a territoriality principle: What really counts is the law in your country. If you ever get into such a situation, look out for professional help and a lawyer. But I have received comprehensive legal advice. □ Important: I’m NOTa lawyer, and this is NOTa legal advice in any way. The long answer is not that simple: Copyright and legal things are complex, and the answer really depends on multiple factors, including possibly to go to court. To answer the question from the image (“Can a maker build this”): The short answer is: Yes, he can, and as an educator I can do it too. What this article is about (and what it is not) Hackaday: building a giant meta-clock made of smaller clocks (image: original image from Hackaday)
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