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Originally Posted by Dale
You could also consider licensing it to Cross the Road or eStop electronics to handle the manufacturing and support or maybe AndyMark (though I don't know if they do actual electronics manufacturing.) I know a lot of FRC teams (including ours) would be interested. We saw a demo of this at FIRSTFare this last weekend...it's a very handy device. I could see you selling 100s with the right distribution (like selling it through AndyMark.)
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Thanks, I really respect your opinion on this. We had considered approaching someone to licence the design. However, we are a poorly funded small town team, and could really use the extra money we might earn by doing the manufacturing ourselves. That may not work out for us, but the team is learning so much from this project, we wanted to let them run with it. There is a lot of work bringing a new idea to market, and not just from the design side. Given what the team has learned so far, I consider this project a success already even if we never sell a single one of these.