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Did you consider doing a KickStarter (or similar) for TinyPilot? Or was it unnecessary?
by jpm_sd 6y ago
Did you consider doing a KickStarter (or similar) for TinyPilot? Or was it unnecessary?
- mtlynch 6y agoThanks for reading. Did you consider doing a KickStarter (or similar) for TinyPilot? I did at the beginning. I was considering ditching the Raspberry Pi and building my own custom board using the Raspberry Pi Compute Module. I expected that to be $20-40k, so I thought it might be a good match for Kickstarter. But the more I went, the more I felt like it was better to keep making progress incrementally. I'm not sure if it's just because I'm a software guy primarily or hardware is inherently slower and harder, but changing tiny details about the manufacturing process is always really hard. There are so many people involved, and I almost always fail to anticipate some consequence of the change. The Pi is my most significant component, so changing it would be a huge jump. I focused instead on things that let me keep the core Raspberry Pi system and OS and then change things on top of that like the video capture chip and creating a custom 3D-printed case.