Is Anyone Trying To Bring To Market A Project They Did On element14?

Our members do a lot of projects and post them on element14. A lot of them are fun projects or labors-of-love. I am curious to know if anyone is taking it a step further and trying to take something he/she made and create a marketable product?

I would be even curious to learn if someone is toying around with the idea, but may not be actively trying to market it.

Thanks.

Randall Scasny

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ninjatrent over 9 years ago

I would be more than willing to collaborate with other parties on this project. If I could find someone interested in possibly assisting me with the purchase of some of the components, it would be a big help. I have already purchased quite a few of the parts to be used in this idea.
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kas.lewis over 9 years ago in reply to ninjatrent

What's the idea, or some elements of the idea.

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ninjatrent over 9 years ago in reply to kas.lewis

Thank you for your interest. It is a type of drone. The design that that I have in mind is rather unconventional.
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ninjatrent over 9 years ago in reply to kas.lewis

Thank you for your interest. It is a type of drone. The design that that I have in mind is rather unconventional.
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vandia over 9 years ago in reply to kas.lewis

I feel stupid that when I responded, I did not see you were responding to someone else....
*hides in a corner*
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ninjatrent over 9 years ago in reply to kas.lewis

I would like to work with the community on the design. I believe it should be open source for further development. There are certain aspects of the process of designing drones that I lack experience in that others within the community might have. I don't want to build something that nobody else has access to. I want everyone to have the opportunity to make my idea better. One thing I have found thru experience is that technology can be expensive.
But with improvement, technology can be affordable and available to everyone. That is what I am looking for. Assistance to make something available to the community. The parts I can buy later, the design we can work on now. One of the key components is an open source esc for brushless motors. There are many designs available already but none that fully meet the requirements of this design. Thanks to rscasny for the post
https://www.element14.com/community/message/219786/l/would-you-like-to-learn-more-about-electronic-speed-controllers-for…
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vandia over 9 years ago in reply to kas.lewis

Well, I'm still learning: Especially on hardware, but also on programming.

I've had a lot of questions recently, and still have some for things I've not used or worked with yet. "How do I control extra GPIOs from an expansion board in Python". for example, is a question I plan to post and ask when I need to come to that hurdle.

I'm also altruistic and like to help people. I'm also a completionist and like to collect "trophies".... or in this case, badges!

There's some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's Element14.
Hell, I use Element14 though for things I can't buy, because I can't afford to pay someone else to do it for me!
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kas.lewis over 9 years ago in reply to ninjatrent

If I may ask then, what help would you be looking for from the community other than buying parts ?

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