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* Remove errant .DS_Store file * Ignore .DS_Store * Create a list of organisations * Add an org list * Show number of PIDs per org * Fix HTML issue, sort orgs by title * Try and fix the PID count * Try and fix issues * Try again to fix issues * Try yet again to fix issues * Correct the urlpart * Change to sort_natural, minor code tidy * Try and fix the sorting * Try again to fix the sorting * Remove debugging * Add a link to orgs page * Install dependencies for Travis * Create .travis.yml * Add the Travis script * Update the Ruby version * Bump the Ruby version some more * Switch back to the documented version * Add the exclude * Update based on https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/pull/5413 * Add github-pages Gem * Add missing gems * Add redcarpet * Switch to tasks so we can run multiple CI tasks * Switch to tasks * Fix the matrix * More matrix fixing * Turn on more htmlproofer options * Make the check less strict * Don't bother complaining about extra jekyll tags * Escape HTML entities * Fix the email link * Fix the link within the 404 page! * Escape more HTML entities * Remove an invalid site URL * Cache ruby bundles * Escape even more HTML entities * Escape yet more HTML entities * Escape more HTML entities and switch to a div * Try and fix the errant paragraph item * Add a Travis badge to the readme * Update Gemfile Adapted from https://github.com/lunaryorn/lunaryorn.github.io * Update _config.yml * Add some more checks to Travis * Report GH Pages versions * Tidy up, add redcarpet back in * Try and stop the spurious paragraph tags
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If you're a maker, hobbyist, or startup company producing your own USB device, you'll need a USB Vendor ID and Product ID to uniquely identify your device to computers. The USB-IF's position is that the only way to do this is for each organisation to pay $5000 for a unique Vendor ID, which may not be shared with other individuals or organisations.
For many makers and small companies, this is a prohibitive amount of money, and forces them to resort to workarounds, such as using other organisations' VIDs without permission, or simply making up a VID and PID. These solutions make things worse for everyone, by damaging the assumption that a VID/PID combination is unique to a given device.
pid.codes seeks to solve this issue for anyone producing open-source hardware. We have been gifted a Vendor ID by a company that was issued one by USB-IF and has since ceased trading; they obtained the Vendor ID before the USB-IF changed their licensing terms to prohibit transfers or subassignments.
pid.codes will assign PIDs on any VID we own to any open-source hardware project needing one. To learn how to get a PID or PIDs for your project, see the how to get a PID page.
pid.codes will also gladly accept donations of Vendor IDs from other organisations that no longer require them, and take responsibility for administering them. If you have a VID code that is no longer in use, please contact us at admin@pid.codes.
This site is in no way supported or endorsed by USB-IF.