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That’s a great idea. If you had enough money you could hire engineers to make version 1 and kick it off. Or maybe you could recruit some engineers?
by mrfusion 7y ago
That’s a great idea. If you had enough money you could hire engineers to make version 1 and kick it off. Or maybe you could recruit some engineers?
- TaylorAlexander 7y agoWell I try to encourage bored engineers to work on open source hardware projects. Finding a funding stream is difficult but finding engineers who want to improve their skills and contribute to society is pretty doable. I spend half of my working time on unpaid open source work that is self directed and primarily chosen based on what is fun and enriching. I have a YouTube channel where I am slowly trying to get the message out, though it’s hard to put all my theory in to words and shoot videos for it. I seem to prefer doing engineering over writing scripts, though writing scripts has its place.
- mrfusion 7y agoThat’s great! What kind of hardware projects?
- TaylorAlexander 7y agoWell recently I designed a nice 3D printable pair of headphones that I will be publishing in the next month or two. For $50 they sound as good as the $200 headphones my roommates have (halfway decent drivers make the difference). My big open source work has to do with 3D printed robotics and computer vision. I designed this robot which is CC0 open source. I am using it for computer vision research: https://reboot.love/t/new-cameras-on-rover/ https://reboot.love/t/new-cameras-on-rover/ https://imgur.com/gallery/GqXD2Zj https://imgur.com/gallery/GqXD2Zj
- mrfusion 7y agoWow I love that robot! I’ve actually been wanting to get into robotics and computer vision myself. Drop me an email if you want to chat robots sometime.