<div class="gmail_quote"><div>Casey,</div><div> </div><div>I have posted several project ideas for things </div><div>people want. Your asking for money makes me focus on things I personally want. My main tech project is to build a robot. I need a Cuis version of the Parallax Propeller Serial Terminal so I can write Smalltalk to control my robot. The current software which is executable only is available here: </div>
<div><a href="http://www.parallax.com/ProductInfo/Microcontrollers/PropellerGeneralInformation/PropellerMediaPage/tabid/832/Default.aspx#Software">http://www.parallax.com/ProductInfo/Microcontrollers/PropellerGeneralInformation/PropellerMediaPage/tabid/832/Default.aspx#Software</a></div>
<div> </div><div>I don't know if the Linux version has source code to help. For now I need it to run on Windows. A complete function duplication is the first step. What is your bid? Please consider I am also "floored" living in a 1987 RV, no cell, neighbor providing internet.</div>
<div> </div><div>The next step will add a graphics display of the numbers sent and received representing actuator positions and commands. Then possibly a video display of what the robot sees. By then I hope to have a joystick or other control to interface. All this can be published on the Parallax site, Squeak site, or Sourceforge with the MIT license.</div>
<div> </div><div>Kirk Fraser</div><div> </div><div> </div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">
Hello Squeakers!<br>
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My job search is turning up dead ends, hurry up and wait, and unfathomably boring prospects.<br>
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Screw all that! I want to do something cool.<br>
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I'm thinking about doing a KickStarter, but almost all of my ideas are either a) stuff no one else wants which only I could possibly think would be cool, or b) overly ambitious. The words Andreas used to describe my last idea: "a bit grandiose." Gift for understatement at times.<br>
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So I'm looking for something which could be completed by one or two geeks in six months to a year, which people actually want, to be implemented (at least in part) using Squeak, and to be released at the end under the MIT license.<br>
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I've floored my expenses, so I can make my own labor (relatively, for a guy living in Seattle) very cheap. By floored, I mean the room I sleep in isn't even tall enough to stand up in -- I do not presently meet the definition of a free-range chicken -- and I've disconnected my cellular service. I want to be an efficient engine for getting things that matter to me and other people done, rather than go on being some tool used to ship lucrative enterprise crapware.<br>
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So here's the $x question: what do you want me to do? I have a Raspberry Pi on order, so bonus points if you can work that in somehow.<br>
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The person with the best (realistic) idea will be credited for it.<br>
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Inspire me! And thanks for reading all the way down to the bottom of this message.<br>
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Casey<br>
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