Programming tricks (and former trade secrets)

[Eldarion]

Originally Posted by Matt Krass

I don't mean to be rude, but I took a look at the code you provide and I must say, it's terribly disorganized and disheveled. I find it hard to navigate and poorly commented, it took me and a friend several minutes to figure out what is apparently a timeout reset of the cameras. Your project looks promising, but I think you should polish it up quite a bit more before charging such a hefty sum for it. And I'm not certain but is that full blown development board depicted in your picture actually entirely necessary? Seems like you could design your own hardware to house the device and save some money in removal of unnecessary parts.

Again I don't mean to be rude, and if I'd made a mistake in my conclusions, please forgive me, your site is somewhat sparse on details, I'll happily stand corrected if I am wrong.

Very good points. I did just throw together the example code for a temporary example, as I do not have an RC with me right now and so I could not clean up and test the code. I will pull it until I can clean it up and test it.

Would someone be able to direct me to a place that can handle the manufacturing and assembly of circuit boards that can handle BGA devices in small runs? At this point, I have almost zero capital, so I cannot invest in a run of 2000 boards and hope to sell them later.

I kind of rushed this product out here to "test the waters" and see if there would be any interest in a system like this. The actual system itself is very mature and stable, I am having some difficulty with the peripheral stuff, like sample IFI drivers. If you click on the "Add to Cart" link, you will see that I am not actually offering this for sale to the general public yet. (I should probably make that more clear.) What I would like is for one or two teams to be willing to test this, make sure that the manual is clear and such, that I am not overpromising, etc. before making this generally available and investing in a new board design.

You were not rude; this is my first time attempting to bring something to market and as such it is a learning experience for me. I appreciate your criticism and feel free to poke as many holes in my logic above as necessary.

Maybe we could discuss this further via the PM system so as not to tie up this thread?

Thanks again.