Hi Steve,
I am unprepared for handling people. Over 20 people have
contacted me about making up a kit for my Brute design. I tell them
they can do it if, they sell a booklet with each kit. I only want the
profit from the booklet. A few days go by and they contact me
complaining about shipping and handling charges. I try to tell them
kits have very little profit. You have to buy parts in large
quantities in order to get them cheaper than the public can buy them.
Shipping and Handling is where companies make some of their profit.
As for boards....Dan has a 3 axis L297/298 board for sale. I
fell for the trap of building a BiPolar board. People kept claiming
nobody had a circuit board avalible. Free plans but no circuit board.
I went looking and found this one!
http://www.seanet.com/~dmauch/ Its tough to beat his price and design.
John
--- In Homebrew_PCBs@y..., Steve Greenfield <alienrelics@y...> wrote:
> Oh, no, I meant I couldn't find the other gentleman's PCB files,
> Hans, the ones he said he had for free download.
>
> At this point I think I'd rather just pay for a PCB already made,
> anyway.
>
> Every once in a while someone gets on the PIC Basic list and wants
> (demands) that everyone else do there work for them. One guy, when
> told to look around the internet for examples, even had the nerve
> to say he didn't have time to search for himself! Yow.
>
> Steve Greenfield
>
> --- crankorgan <john@k...> wrote:
> > Hi Steve,
> > I took the diagrams down, they were causing confusion. I
> > was getting several requests for free plans every day! People
> > could
> > not understand why I would not post my plans for free. There are
> > still a couple of sites who have free stuff. The Wood Dragon's
> > site
> > has disappeared. You used to be able to watch him work on his
> > projects. I guess he moved on! I find some people want me to find
> >
> > things for them. I tell them to check out the LINKS. Instead they
> > get
> > nasty! I get lots of crazy emails, many with viruses attached.
> > It's
> > very slow this month. I am taking a few days off. If things don't
> >
> > pick back up I might not work on the next machine. I get a
> > feeling
> > CNC is just a winter hobby.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In Homebrew_PCBs@y..., Steve Greenfield <alienrelics@y...>
> > wrote:
> > > I've had your site bookmarked for a while.
> > >
> > > I don't see the PCB patterns up there anymore. Did you take
> > them
> > > down?
> > >
> > > As far as people not finding things on the internet... I've
> > seen a
> > > -lot- of people post on lists asking for help finding this or
> > that.
> > > Sometimes they can't find it on the internet because they
> > simply
> > > don't know what are the correct words to search for. Sometimes
> > they
> > > are just too lazy to dig a bit.
> > >
> > > Steve Greenfield
> > >
> > > --- hans@c... wrote:
> > > > crankorgan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > What I find is people are unable to find anything on
> > > > > the internet. Maybe they use the wrong search engine.
> > > >
> > > > I posted a complete design with PCB layout files and
> > schematics
> > > > at my
> > > > web site, during
> > > > the past years I have received 100's or emails from people
> > that
> > > > have
> > > > successfully built the
> > > > Modular Design, with or without the "Smart Current Monitor".
> > > >
> > > > The design is Free... I do not charge anything for it..
> > > >
> > > > When I get time I'm going to post a new design complete with
> > > > EAGLE
> > > > files...
> > > >
> > > > Hans W
> > > > http://hans-w.com
>
>
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