03-14-2021, 03:12 PM
(03-14-2021, 02:18 PM)Arwen Wrote: My low level programming skills are decades out of date. And all I touch now days is shell scripting, (as a Sr. Unix SysAdmin). And my skills with schematics are also decades out of date. (I HAVE done programming on embedded boards, and had to have my engineer boos fix things on his boards... multiple times.)
Eh, embedded systems are really one of the last places to really change all that much. If your skills were valid decades ago, they likely still hold up today. Besides, I would expect most of the work to be in debugging and testing.
(03-14-2021, 02:18 PM)Arwen Wrote: The only thing I can add to the project, is specific suggestions on features and why they would be useful. Like UASP, (USB Attached SCSI Protocol), which will allow SMART, as well as up to 50% faster speeds.
I imagine we will also need testers for these and other features - so there is space even if you weren't to do coding for example. It's okay a developer saying 'works for me', but storage is hardly the sort of device you want to accidentally have fail on you!
(03-14-2021, 02:18 PM)Arwen Wrote: Well, I guess I can afford to pay for a dozen or so development kits. Then send them out to various developers. Gee, kickstarter anyone?
I have no idea how much the initial boards would cost, my guestimate is that they will be sub $50 each (low-volume parts ordering and manufacturing). Ideally the whole thing would be sub $20 (not including shipping).
Kickstarter is great in theory, but there is this expectation that you are delivering a product and the project has some definite unmovable deadline. It's not something I would personally want to expose myself to.
