> 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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