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On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Lars Poetter <[email protected]> wrote:

> > Yes, money is a very big issue but not the biggest one. The big question
> > is whether you get enough skilled people doing work (instead of talk) in
> > a short amount of time. You'd be surprised how many open source projects
> > fail because of that (and even more companies). Unless you have a design
> > that works, is bullet proof and makes coffee in the cycles between, there
> > is no point in trying to get money to manufacture it. Even if you could
> > get money, there is nothing to produce. And just by swinging around some
> > ideas and talking big, you will not get anything done.
>
> You are right that no project can succeed without enough skilled people
> that invest their time. And from what I read on this list more skilled
> people would be a good thing.
>
> > I would like to ask you to stop pushing ideas around and start doing
> > something. Like writing some letters, meeting people and getting a big
> > investor. Or doing some verilog coding. There are also drivers that
> > need to be written... etc. Timothy will for sure be happy to give you
> > a list of things that need to be done.
>
> I don't know big Investors, so I have no one to write letters to and I
> have never ever coded verilog. So that leaves me with nothing to do to
> help.
> I would like to start programming FPGAs. But I don't know where to
> start. I do embedded C Programming and for those that want to start
> embedded C Programming it is now easy, because they can start with an
> Arduino. If there is an FPGA-Arduino the please give me an pointer. If
> there isn't, then creating one would probably be a big step towards your
> target of more skilled People.
> A small cheap PCB that I can connect to the USB Port of my Linux box,
> that comes with all the software needed and that after working trough a
> tutorial can then blink an LED would be a great thing to help people
> start playing with FPGAs. If the budget allows it then throw in some
> GPIO, buttons, Display, other Interfaces SD Card, I2C, Analog In/Out,
> SPDIF whatever. Should not be a big problem as the SD Card Interface is
> only the Socket and pins on the FPGA, the rest is software,...
> For those that want to make big money with this the Arduino is doing
> million dollars,...
>
> > If you cannot do any of these please be quiet and do not distract the
> > people who are actually doing the work.
>
> I will now be quiet and watch the skilled people do their thing. I wish
> the best and hope for new interesting things to come up.
>
> Regards,
>
> Lars
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