On Oct 2, 2012 6:43 PM, "Kirk Wallace" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 15:55 -0600, Jeshua Lacock wrote: > > On Sep 30, 2012, at 9:45 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > > > > > I'm playing with the thought of putting a vacuum deposition system > ... snip > > > > Cool! > > > > I bet if you made the whole project open source you could get funding for it on Kickstarter.com. > > > > Anyhow; just an idea! I would love to see an open source project for this. > ... snip > > Thanks to some on this list, I got links that all together cover the > subject fairly well. Most of the user friendly information is more > show-and-tell after someone has built and used their system, so a lot of > the lower level details and reasoning has been left out. A cookbook > style of documentation would be good. If I can get around to building a > system I'll certainly consider documenting with a cookbook format in > mind. Here is a cookbook'ish document > http://wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/Vacuum/ > > that is available from the Yahoo VacuumX group: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VacuumX/ > > I am not familiar with Kickstarter.com, I'll check it out. I can't > imagine why someone would give me money to play in my shop, but I could > think of worse things that could happen. > > > -- > Kirk Wallace > http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ > http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html > California, USA >
If you wanted to start a service coating mirrors for other people (or selling coated mirrors of your own manufacture), kickstarter would be just the thing. You set a threshold for what would be enough to get you going. If you do not make that threshold, nobodies cards get charged and you spare yourself half a market of angry customers. If you sell enough to make your target (bearing in mind Amazon's share) all backers cards are charged at the completion of the campaign. Twoish weeks later the funds are released to you to execute whatever you promised. Be it make a product or perform a service. For examples, try "Stompy" and the "open source spectrophotometer". Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't let slow site performance ruin your business. Deploy New Relic APM Deploy New Relic app performance management and know exactly what is happening inside your Ruby, Python, PHP, Java, and .NET app Try New Relic at no cost today and get our sweet Data Nerd shirt too! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
