![]() I broke it a few times my 5DM2 was in the repair service twice in one year. Out of many cameras I have had over the years, Canon DSLRs have the weakest USB port. At home I use various shooting aids (jigs?) and on the road I prefer offloading pictures to the laptop via USB rather than packing a card reader. They decided to keep displaying my shield on their product page even after I specifically asked them to remove it.Ĭontinue reading Using your content for fun and profit ![]() By inspecting the web page (see screenshot below, click on it to make it larger) I found out that Jameco didn’t even bother to copy the image but merely embedded it in their product page. For Jameco, maybe, for a small maker company like yours truly, not a whole lot. ![]() To my disappointment, V.P.s are not really that helpful. I checked again this evening and found out that nothing really changed – the picture is still there, the product description is still there and the link to my non-commercial schematic is still there. I contacted her/him again and had been given a deadline “by 9am tomorrow”. I waited for about a week and checked again – nothing happened. I was quickly assured that the issue will be investigated and fixed in “a day or two”. of Product Management at Jameco, and immediately contacted this no doubt important and powerful official explaining my worries. Under the product description they posted a bunch of links, again, to my site, showing people how to use my shield.įrom my e-mail exchange with a gentleman I learned an e-mail of Gil Orozco, V.P. Under it, they used the product description from my product page, almost verbatim – the notion about soldering headers is especially funny since DFrobot’s shield comes with pre-soldered headers. First, the title picture was taken from the following blog post, and it shows my shield, not DFRobot’s. I looked at the product page and quickly realized that the page was carefully crafted from several elements from my site. The gentleman bought his shield at Jameco Electronics – a reputable US retailer. As usual, DFrobot haven’t added any value to the mix, even schematic they used to present as theirs is a verbatim copy of mine, including copyright and license. ![]() The shield itself is a mix of my and Sparkfun’s designs and mine has been released “for non-commercial use”. This story started about 2 weeks ago when I received an e-mail from a gentleman having issues with USB Host shield made by DFrobot – a well-known cloner. ![]()
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