I design robot bodies, arm, carts etc. I was working with a professor who coded for me my designs and in turn I developed and created by design, what he wanted to make. It was a good relationship. Then he went into a different direction and this is the reason for this post. He was in the united kingdom and I was in texas. Any suggestions in how to properly ask for a coder using a bartering trade off? I can make anything, I just cant code like I make my designs.
Before he left, we were working a pico processor for a multi functional arm. Thanks for any help.
Heres some of the stuff we made together, some used the mit app with bluetooth.
These are the designs me and the professor made to work. As to open source, we shared our files so that we each could print one out to trouble shoot any problems. This would be the same method I would use for someone who wants to takes his place. The biggest project we started but never finished before he left was Bongo.
So anyone who wants to be a part of the project will get all the resources.
We used fritzing, inventor, fusion, and graphic programs for the builds and coding.
So basically anyone intrested can be a part of the projects. We always paid for our own stuff from aliba or amazon. We were on the verge of doing a mutil processor with the pico. But this is when he left. All of the designs are original.
The boxed Krob was an attempt to sell on etsy.
It never sold.
Most of the soldering is original or shared from others using you tube. We saw something we liked, did a zoom meeting and started to get to work. We did it because we like to
The Robots you make are really cool, but how are you monetizing those?
Are you taking them for mass manufacturing so that they can be sold as kids toys?
Or are you'll selling them as DIY kits? Is there a business plan to back this up?
You mentioned about a failed attempt to sell a particular product on etsy, what was your marketing strategy for the same? Organic (YouTube, Instagram) or did you do paid ads?
Before you propose a barter, you need to show us the returns someone would get for the time they devote to these projects- Could be money, recognition, More business leads etc.
There is no money that we made. We did it because we could. My gift is design, his was programming. I could code some in blockly, but the code was messy. He could clean it up so we could get more from the chip. There are some you tube videos, I can show you how it worked. We never did it to become rich. We just met on a forum and it took off from there. Now these projects have the parts, old code and work. But thats it. Bongo has schematics, fritzing but needs a brain to balance.
He taught the chinese how to program, He ran into some difficulty fincially. He did not want to spend time anymore with the hobby. Im retired and have been sitting on these projects for a while since covid. No mysteries here. The only "gain or benfit" is the work is shared openly.
We both tutor and do not plan to make this a business. One, time is a factor. Two He is limted in design, I am limited in code. Now hes gone and this is a feeble attempt to find someone like him.
Cheers
THX. And I feel your pain - I've had some loss, nothing exactly like this, but when you are a fraction of something and other fractions become unavailable it can make you appreciate the downside as well as the power of collaboration.
I believe the inquiry about "open source" was meant to ask if you are sharing all the developed IP with the world through any of the common channels for doing.
As far as I am aware of, everything we did code wise was open source. He knew sites like github, mit, etc.
I visted sites like grabcad, cults and thingiverse.
We had good chemistry, we did alot of what if this could do this this in brainstorming. Lancelot pushed 110 addressable neos with 8 servos. Blockly ran out of rem. with the nano every.
The biggest project we needed to finish was a remote controller to operate our designs from to test out servo strength, travel distance, torque size etc. He like the mit app to control our stuff.
I never understood it.
Thanks
What the functionality at the end of the development.
May be a reason of stopped work on project - less interesting of result as robots are do nothing helpful?
As I suspected, there is only that much one can do without any financial gain.
"Barter" is Perhaps the wrong word to use here, what you're looking for is a collaborater who is voluntarily willing to partner with you on these projects to provide coding support.
I believe there is a different section for that, this section is more about Paid Jobs & Consultation services.
The code the professor wrote is his. You would have to get his permission to use it. If you want to see what he gave me for say Krob its on a google drive. There is no money to be made in asking for a coder. The benefit is you get access to the designs, code (that he gave me), and working I stress, (working) because designs dont work unless you perfect them, even in printing. This gig or whatever you call it, is asking for someone who cant design or doesnt like it, but can code and program. I can design, test, print and bring it to completion for us both.
It works like this.
Hey Bill, lets make a rover that we can use on mars. I say ok lets do it, got a picture? He says yes and we begin to get to work. Now mind you time could mean months years etc. And timezone, holidays etc affect the work.
But if it all goes as planned we both have a rover.
Now as to rights its for who ever worked on it.
If we have a decent group then we have a huge variety of designs.
My gift in this is bringing the design element to the conversation. If it thinks that is up to the programmer.
Hope this clarifies things.
with the nano every.
