alt Hacker NewsNever heard of Flux.ai before. It seems to be a 3D circuit designer with 'AI'.
Not sure what the issue between them and Adafruit is. However, people over on Reddit¹ claim that Flux.ai is a little bit scummy. They push users into a beginner trial ($5/month) and then silently charge for usage per token - up to $100 per month.
Oh, they also claim that they have "the world's largest community-driven public library of Adafruit products, including footprints, symbols, datasheets, and simulation models"². I wonder whether they designed these themselves or whether they use existing ones. Could not easily find licenses info.
¹) https://www.reddit.com/r/PCB/comments/18o5zfo/thoughts_on_fl...
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Flux.ai is abusing Adafruit's trademark while harassing Adafruit with a lawsuit. Wow!
> Oh, they also claim that they have "the world's largest community-driven public library of Adafruit products, including footprints, symbols, datasheets, and simulation models"². I wonder whether they designed these themselves or whether they use existing ones. Could not easily find licenses info.
Their PCB designs are mostly CC Attribution-ShareAlike typically.
What's funny is that most Adafruit products aren't exactly secret. Most of them have open source schematics and PCB layouts. Even when they aren't, they pretty much just a reference design from a data sheet. The kind of people that have the competence to be using board design software could replicate their designs pretty easily.