@davedarko We'll see if we can come up with a new combination of voltages and pinouts this year!

To add to your standards collection, naturally.

@macegr @North @hackaday

Nate has me backing up on the "innovate or die" bit, though. He's absolutely right that the value proposition of Sparkfun (and let's toss in Adafruit) is that they're selling you a solution.

Education, examples, and open source everything are the support that makes that solution even easier to apply.

So if your product is not a solution, maybe the openness is of less value?

@North @hackaday Education/info: agree 100% -- from the consumer perspective. I don't need the newest solution, but just a simple-to-use and well explained solution, with some good examples to point me in the right direction.

(And I know that you've seen it from the other side.)

@North @hackaday I've always liked Sparkfun Nate's take that if you don't open-source it, your customers lose out on a tremendous resource, but it only delays your competition by a week or so of reverse engineering effort.

Their business is innovate-or-die anyway. Making it all open source just keeps that in the front of their minds.