I wasn't hearing much from my friend about building the prototype. So i reached out to him and offered him 10% to just :
1) Build a quick prototype
2) After that, be just a consultant on the project i.e. just answer any questions I have but no manual work.
He was very nice about it, he told me he's been caught up in other projects and his day job as an engineer. he's going to try to recruit his friend to perhaps build it as they both thought the idea had some merit; however, he said if I didn't hear from him in 2 weeks, I should take it as he's not going to be able to help with the project.
Part of that timeline is because I told him I wanted to build a prototype fast and get to talking to the auto execs to Validate it and thus either sink or swim with the licensing plan. He mentioned he didn't want to hold me back timewise and that it might actually be a great experience for me to teach myself how to build it etc.
I've been tinkering with my arduino, found an instructable on how to trigger a sensor that will call your phone, I'll need to just loop in the code about the temp sensor. Unfortunately, that required many more parts so I've been ordering some parts, and they haven't worked as I hoped, so would need to order another etc. I read I could probably just go to a Radioshack....so that may be the new plan for new parts going forward 😀 instead of waiting for shipping.
Also, got sidetracked with the new baby coming and I had a another idea I wanted to build a quick prototype for to test and been talking with Chinese manufacturers. I realized I lost time on this project due to that and need to focus on 1 at a time.
Bottom-line: Still building and learning on how it all works. Great learning experience for me.
1) Build a quick prototype
2) After that, be just a consultant on the project i.e. just answer any questions I have but no manual work.
He was very nice about it, he told me he's been caught up in other projects and his day job as an engineer. he's going to try to recruit his friend to perhaps build it as they both thought the idea had some merit; however, he said if I didn't hear from him in 2 weeks, I should take it as he's not going to be able to help with the project.
Part of that timeline is because I told him I wanted to build a prototype fast and get to talking to the auto execs to Validate it and thus either sink or swim with the licensing plan. He mentioned he didn't want to hold me back timewise and that it might actually be a great experience for me to teach myself how to build it etc.
I've been tinkering with my arduino, found an instructable on how to trigger a sensor that will call your phone, I'll need to just loop in the code about the temp sensor. Unfortunately, that required many more parts so I've been ordering some parts, and they haven't worked as I hoped, so would need to order another etc. I read I could probably just go to a Radioshack....so that may be the new plan for new parts going forward 😀 instead of waiting for shipping.
Also, got sidetracked with the new baby coming and I had a another idea I wanted to build a quick prototype for to test and been talking with Chinese manufacturers. I realized I lost time on this project due to that and need to focus on 1 at a time.
Bottom-line: Still building and learning on how it all works. Great learning experience for me.
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