This idea did not sit well with VTM Group, the people serving as the management, PR, legal, and membership and licensing department of the USB Implementers Forum. Since other USB device vendors such as Microchip and FTDI give away USB PIDs for free, a not for profit foundation could buy a VID, give PIDs away to foundation members making open source hardware, and we would all live in a magical world of homebrew devices that are certified as USB compliant. Adafruit, Sparkfun, and the other big guys in the hobbyist market have all paid the USB Implementers Forum for a USB VID, but that doesn’t help the guy in his garage hoping to sell a few hundred homebrew USB devices.Īrachnid Labs had an interesting idea to solve this problem. Each USB device sold requires a vendor ID (VID) and a product ID (PID) to be certified as USB compliant. ![]() one of the major barriers to hobbyists and very small companies selling hardware with a USB port is the USB Implementers Forum.
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