Olin,

This project is funded by me at this time.  That may change at some
point in the future, but for right now, I am the sole financial
supplier.

As far as the admins go, I will suggest they treat you like any other
member, but I'm not sure how much clout I carry in that respect.
If this does get funded by someone other than me in the future, I'll
contact you regarding hiring you as a consultant.  Until then, this
project is mostly a personal effort at building a low cost test
fixture/instrument for use with the products we make where I work.
Most of the test equipment for our products are fixtures that have been
designed and built in house because of the nature of the products.
As such, they are rather expensive, and take a relatively long time to
design and build and get online.    Also, there is a lot of overkill
In the equipment we build because they contain some items that are off
the shelf, and are way overpowered for the job, but they are at the 
Sametime the low end equipment.  In other words, we buy the mininum
functionality that the vendor offers, but for our purpose, they have 
Much excess functionality and capacity.

So, my thought is if we can do an adequate job with something less, and
it can be built at a lower (much lower) cost, then not only do we
Still build a good quality product, but we get the same or better
testing capability with equipment that costs less, then our costs of
building
And testing go down, and we conceivably could offer the product at
somewhat lower cost to the customer.   Everybody wins.  What a concept.

So, I am in the first stages of building a working prototype that we can
operate right along with the current test setup to see if it will work.
If it does, then I can probably get my employer to foot the bill not
only for future development work, but I can get reimbursed for my costs
of the
Prototype unit.  Again, everyone wins.  

I'll let you know what happens after I get the prototype built and
tested.  And again, thanks for your help.  I appreciate it very much.


						

	
Regards,

	
Jim  
 

-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Olin Lathrop
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 12:18 PM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [PIC]: Algorithm wanted

PAUL James wrote:
> As far as more detail, I would appreciate that, and I would be 
> interested in what you have to say.  So, if you want to "Go into 
> detail", you could contact directly at my email address, and thus 
> eliminate the censorship of the admins.

Is this a funded commercial project?  If so, you really should have
someone at least advising that has experience with low level graphics.
I do that kind of consulting (I helped get ATI started in 3D.  No,
seriously.) and can provide all the private help you want that way.

If you want more free help on the list, try convincing the admins to
treat me like everyone else here.  They can treat me like dirt or have
me add value to the list.  They get to pick only one.


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