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Can you arrange some business deal with the guys who make Blackfin camera?
QuoteCan you arrange some business deal with the guys who make Blackfin camera?Like what? I've made deals with quite a few companies, but I'm keeping them secret until the Axon has gone on sale Lets just say, 'extensive code library' . . .Speaking of which, I just bought all parts needed for manufacturing . . . and PCB manufacturing began yesterday. Hmmmm $500 in on/off switches . . .I'm going to offer quanitity discounts for small volume purchases, too. And I made shipping free (within the US). Im fairly sure international shipping with be <$25, but don't quote me on that yet.
Lets just say, 'extensive code library' . . .
QuoteCan you arrange some business deal with the guys who make Blackfin camera?Like what? I've made deals with quite a few companies, but I'm keeping them secret until the Axon has gone on sale Lets just say, 'extensive code library' . . .
so any idea in when the board will stop moving about and finally get mass produced? Everytime I get my wallet together, poof, switch manufacturers, or poof, needed to change the board,,,
Turns out I'm more inexperienced than I thought when it comes to manufacturing.The process of getting and negotiating price quotes is like a 2-3 week process, when I thought it was a 2-3 day process. Just when I'm ready, another company comes in with a better offer. At least I managed to save a few thousand by comparing ~12 different companies and negotiating with them So yea, I'm going to spend a huge sum of money in the next day or two. From that point on, its going to be about a ~15 day process. Then I'll spend a few more days putting on the final touches (testing, programming, etc).But then again, my inexperience has made me really poor at estimating time . . .
But capitalism cant funtion without a price In order to speed of production of the Axon II, admin will have to raise the price of the Axon I in order to acquire the funds for research and development, but raising the price will make less people interested, and to compensate you would have to charge the ones still interested even more. The only way it could function is with patience, which none of us consumers have, so the longer we wait the less interested we become, and the less purchases, which brings me back to the top of my rant....Anyone have any plans for the Axon I?
Quote from: gamefreak on May 26, 2008, 10:47:40 AMBut capitalism cant funtion without a price In order to speed of production of the Axon II, admin will have to raise the price of the Axon I in order to acquire the funds for research and development, but raising the price will make less people interested, and to compensate you would have to charge the ones still interested even more. The only way it could function is with patience, which none of us consumers have, so the longer we wait the less interested we become, and the less purchases, which brings me back to the top of my rant....Anyone have any plans for the Axon I?I'm sure at least 25 people on this board will buy it, and if it works half as well as the Admin promised us, these people will suggest the Axon to others, which will largely buy it, etc. The Axon has the advantage that there's already a community around it to do the publicity for *free*... And the Admin has plenty of "street cred", which will help sell the product
Any dc motor control? Any way to hook vision up to it for onboard processing?
looking at the pic of the axon i did see a 3300uF big cap ,, why all that capacitance? in the 7805 reg datasheet it says 0.33 uF at the input is pretty much suffiecientor is it always that the bigger cap at input the better???
The Axon is 100% RoHS Compliant and lead free. No other microcontroller on the market has made this claim - meaning they use cheaper components (for higher profits) at the cost of our environment!
The Axon is 100% RoHS Compliant and lead free.
I've got to say, that's some pretty low-brow stuff there. Seeing that you're willing to make incorrect and baseless slanderous claims about others to promote your own product makes me lose respect for you.
3) Furthermore, if some company does use cheaper, non-RoHS components, you have no way of knowing that that is leading to higher profits. What if they're spending less on components so they can offer the boards for less to their customers in a country where people realize that the environmental impact of traces of lead in circuitboards is negligible at best?
So where'd I go wrong? I looked at the websites of all the main comparable microcontroller manufacturers 6 months ago, and none of them made the claim on their sites that I could find.
1. How does this controller compare and contrast to Robonova's MR-C3024? As in price and features?
2. How does the Blackfin camera work with conjuction to the Axon? Does it receive an image, process it and then feed information on objects it recognizes back to the Axon or does it work in another way?
3. Would I be able to hook up some sort of LCD to the Axon for display of text, images or video from the camera?
4. Why didnt you choose to interface the CMUCam3 with it? Can't that one recognize faces and whatnot?
5. Is it possible to attach different camera systems onto the Axon? Or is it only made for the Blackfin?
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