Selling an Electronics Design

I think this would be an advertisement. Take a look at the charta and FAQs for sci.electronics.*

ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/m/mzenier/seguide9706.txt

| Q. Are advertisements restricted to ONLY | misc.industry.electronics.marketplace? | | A. That's the idea.

Did you tried Google with the title of the document? Sometimes it helps.

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No designs for sale? Maybe because there's no designers here ?:-)

...Jim Thompson

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Thats never stopped anything before...

I should have added... I'll sell you a mixed-signal ASIC design, to your specifications, for US$ 50K - US$ 150K, depending on complexity, not including layout, or processing ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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lol... :)

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com British Columbia Canada

"Jim Thompson" schreef in bericht news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

No customers here...

petrus bitbyter

"Jim Thompson" schreef in bericht news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Now I can guess why!

petrus bitbyter

Perhaps.... but how about designers selling designs to designers? It could be like this: Say you want to build a cart and your cart needs wheels. Instead of re-inventing the wheel, just buy a wheel off a wheel designer.

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com British Columbia Canada

And I'm cheap. Go price it done by a major semi house.

...Jim Thompson

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Obama is about to make Herbert Hoover look like a financial genius

Somebody is selling the plans for a tube powered wobble organ....from

1952!...ugh :( E*bay item 390025718263 Clipped from E*bay " Plans to build a Wobble Organ. An early Synthesizer developed by engineers of the Bell Laboratories Glee Club for entertainment at their annual party. This Electronic Barbershop Quartet could be played by up to four people. Each player controled a console oscillator tuned to either a bass - tenor - alto - or soprano tone"

Other than stuff like that, I can't find any interesting electronic plans for sale on E*bay using keywords electronic schematic and electronic plans.

But there's kits..

Electronic Kit E*bay 110341245418 Ha! A 555 blinker for $1.95. I guess a 555 circuit is cheaper than a uC circuit. Probably because the 555 can sink more current.

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com British Columbia Canada

There's a bigger market on ebay (and seemingly more gullible mugs) ....

1. It's not a "for sale" NG.
2. What's the point, with all the free stuff out there?

Cheers! Rich

Do designers often set their good stuff free? I don't think so.. I think lots of free stuff are 'trails'.. The trail ends when the design gets valuable. iow....The free stuff takes you part way.. Modern advances ...well that leaks out slowly onto the net. (Where disclosure can decimate profit.)

iow..There's a time delay of what becomes free. I suspect it becomes free when it's profitablity dies off.

iow..If you've finished making money on it...set it free..

If you need cutting edge, that can be a design worth buying.

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com British Columbia Canada

Such as?

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Agreed, but you have to keep in mind than an awful lot of engineer's "good stuff" is well-known and readily documented. Look at all the ridiculous patents there are these days...

...and it's up to you to figure out the tricky stuff.

Also agreed, albeit with emphasis on the word "can" -- of every new product out there, I'd say that well less than 10% contain any particularly "cutting edge" research that isn't well-known. What makes for successful products these days is often more about *style* (Apple!) and *paying attention to what people actually want* (Blackberry, iPhone) rather than any unique technological edge. Indeed, it's a bit ironic that something like an iPhone contains very little actual hardware that's significantly different than any other "smart phone" out there, but what makes the iPhone such a good product is Apple really paying attention to how well the software *works* for the average person... and of course a "slick" marketing campaign that has convinced people that all the cool kids buy Apple.

Yes, absolutely.

---Joel

Uhhh...the pressure :( How about an smps design for lowest cost using current component prices. k...that's not cutting edge, but illustrates that it's a design unlikely to be found on the net because component prices change.. I'm sure there are designs for low price that have an expiry date like milk..

Uhh...A cutting edge design you won't find on the net.., Yet..the technology has bread crumbs on the net.. Uhhh... The power supplies used by TIR.

Most likely TIR has figured out the cutting edge power solution for LED power. Are those schematics public..nope. Would I buy that electronics design..yup..

(Anybody at TIR reading this, make me an offer. I'll meet you at the Skytrain station. No names.. I'll bring cash!) :P

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com British Columbia Canada

000.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products

Was a good deal at the time for SCP. The rest is (bad) luck.

Maybe because people would rather have a basic design for free, than pay for a better design. There is a ton of stuff out there for free, good and bad.

Also, people want to scratch'n'sniff before they buy. So what are you going to do, give'em half the circuit as a "tease" and the other half when you get the cash?

Dave.

Anyone not expecting to obtain back more than they pay in a business deal is engaging in charity. :-) Bill Gates (et al.) just ended up with a phoenomenally larger return on investment than he had anticipated...

SCP did eventually squeeze another million out of Microsoft, though...

I don't know the details, but it sure seems as though SCP/Rod Brock could have become the first, e.g., Dell had they set their minds to it...

---Joel

000.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products

I could dip the entire board in black epoxy and ask for it back. :) Try before you buy..

D from BC myrealaddress(at)comic(dot)com British Columbia Canada