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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 > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) > -- _Lance
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