Here’s a question, not a “question of the day”, but one of curiosity and one that could possibly lead to something constructive and helpful. I ask: do you have a need for some kind of electronic circuit on your layout that you cannot find, but would make life and your layout better if you had it? Maybe some sort of detection circuit, or a timer of sorts, or perhaps a digital sequencer or a different power supply?
Why do I ask you say? Well, when we started our electronic manufacturing business way back (longer than you'd care to know), I didn't want to start making a product that no one wanted, so I asked some people in the security industry that I knew, what product that didn’t exist would they be able to use if they had it. That approach worked, I got lots of feedback. We had an instant market for our new products and our customers had something that made their jobs easier that they were guaranteed to use. We have long since retired and have no plans to go back into manufacturing anything, but I thought it would be interesting to see if I could perhaps design some small digital circuits to do specific jobs on a layout, and that I could make available to everyone here to use. If it was popular enough, I could possibly even get someone to build up a limited quantity of whatever it was that I designed.
[FONT="]This is just a wild thought, and if you don’t want to post your ideas here, just PM me with them. I promise you, they will be held in strict confidence and non-disclosure if that’s what you want.
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Why do I ask you say? Well, when we started our electronic manufacturing business way back (longer than you'd care to know), I didn't want to start making a product that no one wanted, so I asked some people in the security industry that I knew, what product that didn’t exist would they be able to use if they had it. That approach worked, I got lots of feedback. We had an instant market for our new products and our customers had something that made their jobs easier that they were guaranteed to use. We have long since retired and have no plans to go back into manufacturing anything, but I thought it would be interesting to see if I could perhaps design some small digital circuits to do specific jobs on a layout, and that I could make available to everyone here to use. If it was popular enough, I could possibly even get someone to build up a limited quantity of whatever it was that I designed.
[FONT="]This is just a wild thought, and if you don’t want to post your ideas here, just PM me with them. I promise you, they will be held in strict confidence and non-disclosure if that’s what you want.
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