Any Strobist with a CNC workshop?
Or, a plastic moulding facility?
Tom
JonSenior wrote:I'm with pinhead on this one. Come up with an electrical / software design. Leave the cases to the end users. If someone wants to throw the capital at a bulk order of machined parts in order to sell them on, so be it, but we don't want to force people to a certain source. Open source. This didn't start as a Vellerman kit and I don't think it should be pushed in that direction. Off-the-shelf components for the essentials and let the users add the level of polish that they desire.
To me the mechanical part is a very important consideration
in the assessment of a designs usefulness.
Also I'd like to be able to buy completed systems from
$whoever.
If you are not part of the solution,
you are part of the problem.
JonSenior wrote:To me the mechanical part is a very important consideration
in the assessment of a designs usefulness.
As I've responded to you elsewhere, I'm in favour of leaving that up to the user / builder.
Also I'd like to be able to buy completed systems from
$whoever.
And I'd love to see someone take the design and make a marketable product from it, but I don't think that's what we should be trying to do.
If you are not part of the solution,
you are part of the problem.
And while it's not a part of the discussion, but while I'm sat on my
high horse... I hate this. This attitude leads to "coalitions of the willing"
starting wars in oil rich countries, and police states trampling over
human rights.
MQ wrote:I will definitely neither be willing nor have the time and skills
in SMD soldering to assemble a system myself. So, without a
completed system being available, any result will help me
nothing.
So my target must be somebody to invest in the production of
a completed system variant that suits my needs.
This is why I write down my requirements. Maybe somebody listens.
Once we're at that point, we can start to implement all these features that are being requested. And then someone can take the design, and get a hundred triggers made and start selling them to everyone.
Why not? Currently, the sky's the limit. At some point we will
have to find a compromise, but until then I think it is good to
view every possible aspect in all advantages and disadvantages
in order to finally come to the point where as many people are
satisfied as possible.
JonSenior wrote:Because as others have noted, when you start making end products
you are into a world of FCC regulations, capital investment, manufacturing,
fit-for-purpose support channels, marketing... Perhaps there are enough
people here with experience in those areas who can form a multinational
and go into business. Me? I just want to take more photos.
With regard to your concerns about building them. Should we get
a working design, and you are prepared to pay material costs + beer,
I'll make you a set if it would get them into the professional arena
(This is a one-time offer), and this would indeed be a plausible solution.
Which brand of beer?
JonSenior wrote:I'm in Paris so the choices are limited here (according to some of my
German friends).
So if this ever comes up here's my proposal.
I bring the triggers to you (Good train connections and getting
better everyday). You buy me beer and allow me to shadow you
on a professional job (Call me an unpaid assistant). Obviously,
I'll refrain from drinking the beer until after it's finished.
Now we just need to design and build the damn things.![]()
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