Doctor Snuggles, build us a clever machine
Well, less than 24 hours from the next Gadgetinis meetup. Apparently the last idea I submitted is being taken to the next level of putting together a proposal and seeing if anyone bites.
Personally, I don't think it's been hammered out enough for that. It's still highly conceptual and a lot of things were still being fiddled around with last week. Not to mention that I'm a little worried that the cut-down version being proposed for the first prototype has been cut down just one or two steps too far, neutering what I see as a major source of appeal by turning the fast, flexible, general-purpose system I envisaged into a slower, clunkier, rather narrow-scope device which would require far too many alterations to existing industry procedures.
Still, if the group thinks it's ready (or just time to move on to other projects), I can't really say much. Sigh.
They've solicited new ideas/projects for the next meeting. I had nearly twenty outlined and emailed within a couple of hours of getting home last week. Mainly stuff I've had on the back burner for a couple of years, but some new things as well. Hopefully one or two might be seen as potentially viable products, or at least intellectual property.
Personally, I don't think it's been hammered out enough for that. It's still highly conceptual and a lot of things were still being fiddled around with last week. Not to mention that I'm a little worried that the cut-down version being proposed for the first prototype has been cut down just one or two steps too far, neutering what I see as a major source of appeal by turning the fast, flexible, general-purpose system I envisaged into a slower, clunkier, rather narrow-scope device which would require far too many alterations to existing industry procedures.
Still, if the group thinks it's ready (or just time to move on to other projects), I can't really say much. Sigh.
They've solicited new ideas/projects for the next meeting. I had nearly twenty outlined and emailed within a couple of hours of getting home last week. Mainly stuff I've had on the back burner for a couple of years, but some new things as well. Hopefully one or two might be seen as potentially viable products, or at least intellectual property.