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Re: Sasquatch Robot Controller powered by Arduino

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Originally Posted by ajlapp View Post
We appreciate the support.
Not a problem. I noticed that your Kickstarter seems set to be over $15k or bust by Jan 25. If you do not make that goal please contact me and I will instead send you the money outside of Kickstarter.

I only asked about CAN because I know Atmel has CAN transcievers integrated with some AVR, Mega and Xmega products. What we used has no purpose built integration. We added all special functionality by peripheral. I have a long relationship with Atmel and their products. I was just surprised considering a selling point is the availability of the CAN without adding a transciever like I did.

We hit all the big selling points as well. Heck we had a separate radio link and enough room to scale out to a small supercomputer. We also went in with plastic injection companies and existing electronic production floor. We just could not demonstrate market place sales for a hobby control system. I have no regrets about that there was no way to create that from the time they expressed interest to the proposal date it really did not matter what we wrote.

I still want to pursue a community motor control module (as stated clearly in the proposal) and now that I do not have this added pressure pulling me different directions I can continue to work on the information technology that will advance on educating the market on various things without short deadlines risking compromise on that very vital point.
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