OK, let's talk about how you guys are going to make your first million with the BBB. Yes, I'm shameless; but isn't that really what all of us are doing here, trying to make the "big bucks" as they are known.
Lots of things you can do with a BBB. For example, you can set it up with a 2-relay cape epoxy it to the inside of a standard house electrical outlet or switch and start your own home automation company. Throw on a cheap CMOS web cam and push the video over the Wifi to add security to the system, and you are off to becoming rich. Internet of Things. Yes it would be the most expensive automation on the market, but you could do it. Feed a switch signal through on of the GPIO's and you have a remote wireless switch that can control something. How you do this is simple. You start off with an idea that you know is going to work. Then you sketch it out and work out a rough schematic so you can go through the breadboarding and PCB construction phase. This will give you a great working prototype that you can take directly to a PCB maker, case designer, injection molder, engineering firm, distributor and make some cabbage for your great new idea. One of the great things about PIC's is that they are only about $1 - $2 for about a VIC 20's worth of computing power on them. You can actually take your simplified working prototype right to production if you want to (as the cost isn't that much different). So feel free to work a lot with PIC's instead of finicky analog discretes. So you get your board together and it works great. If you are a hobbyist this is usually where you stop but you can go on if you think you have a winner. For example, you could Gerber/Eagle (and if you don't want to learn this you can go to Fiver/Elance/Guru and have someone do it for you for about $50-$200 and get them to talk to the PCB manufacturers for you if you can) it and get like a few hundred boards that you blow out the back door to your buddies that does X well. You can even have them populate it and solder it up. <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vtsm-G6klLU/WKAt4V96I2I/AAAAAAAAAHQ/fIGhaIAXGI4_u6iu0gQrX4dnaSBgVKA1wCLcB/s1600/marketting.png> Get a tiny ad in Popular Mechanics, the local newspaper, niche web sites, or just go and troll related web sites just yelling at the top of your lungs you have a UART-to-MOSFET ESC that always works and if you want the board you can send $5 to wherever. Chances are you'll get thrown out after a while but you will have sold 10 boards for $2.50 profit and forwarded the art...OF GUERRILLA MARKETING!!! lol jk....I meant Beagleboard development. Think about that $25 in your hot little hands. Hardest $25 you ever made but the adventure of it is priceless for a lifetime. Non-opt-in newsletters to some random email list you scraped from the local Chamber of Commerce, sent by trickle CRON-based niche emails complete with MIME. Midnight calls on your obamaphone with leftover minutes to potential customers. Running through dangerous neighborhoods with photocopied flyers telling people about how good your Internet of Things device is. (laughin my ass off right now). Life is to be lived. And if you are running though a sky scraper with your fliers, start at the top so when security stops you you can continue to drop you fliers as you are leaving the building. Just tell them I sent you...NOT! And get swag. Get a bunch of cheap printed pens done up and as you are talking up your new device, slip some of your pens in their cup. Throw cheap thin T-Shirts with your board stenciled on the front (because you couldn't afford to print the back). Yes, I'm joking but if you want to be competitive with your BBB you HAVE TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX. lmao. On Monday, January 30, 2017 at 6:19:30 PM UTC-7, woody stanford wrote: > > I posted the remote control for this in Software, but I put a bunch of > hardware in it so I thought I'd post it here. > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/beagleboard/software/evSIUcuWfUY > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/76fb9b99-7f65-4ed8-b13c-4d26f7e82da7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
