There are a lot of hardware and software designs that can be used for your own project. Sometimes this design may fit your needs without any modifications. Of course you could also end up spending more time modifying the design than you would have spent designing it yourself.

Research is important when deciding whether or not to use designs developed by someone else. It is important to look at licensing to decide if the license is compatible with your license choices. Readability and documentation are also important factors in the decision.

If you have the budget, you can buy the design.  There is also public domain and open source designs to choose from as well.

This project is not very exotic.  There is probably a lot of free and open source designs available that I will be able to incorporate into the design, especially in the software. I still haven’t decided on the licensing for this project.  There are several common open source licenses for software and probably similar hardware licenses.