Wednesday, July 31, 2013

MakeItWithMe.com - the website for inventors and designers

MakeitWithMe.com website - Beyond the evaluation stage!

Website for inventors, designers and idea marketers, to share their ideas, get them made and sold. 

Different from idea sites like whyNot and Halfbakery.com this website goes beyond the evaluation stage. MakeitWithMe.com is for actually getting your idea built.
With MakeitWithMe.com you get your idea out there:

  • You need a precisely defined goal - define it with MakeitWithMe
  • You need a great presentation - collaborate on MakeitWithMe with designers, engineers, video experts and artists
  • You need a good business model - consult on MakeitWithMe with financial experts, and build you business plan with them.
  • You may want a prototype - build it with a team on MakeitWithMe 
  • You need patents or other ways to secure your idea - MakeitWithMe is the place to discuss them and write them.

You may get volunteers to assist you, promise to share revenues or even pay team members.


The site will be affiliated with 

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Website definition and looks: 

Leaving it to you people !!
 - Please help me out with this !
  • The site should have:
    • A main page 
      • Keywords webtag-cloud (by high vote)
      • Latest idea titles by category, stage or vote
      • Submit your idea
      • Advanced search
    • Voting on various aspects: doable, original, offensive
    • Idea Stage status
      • Stages: Evaluation, Design, Prototype, 
      • For each stage, status can be: No (strikethrough), Future, Started, Advanced, Done
    • Comments - 
      • vote on comments same as on ideas.
    • Privacy levels: 
      • personal list, project members, site members, public
    • Some explanatory pages - 
      • Other websites to put your idea up for evaluation
      • Community sponsored links - 
        • Companies that help inventors in specific fields
      • Where NOT to invest (general invention promotion firms)

Bike chair, for resting comfortably when your not riding

Quarterbakery idea: bike chair

- chair that folds out of side of bike when your not riding it, to be used for comfortably resting. Instead of tying the bike and leaving it, lean on it for support!!

Here's how I drew it in Deviant art 

There's a feature to see how it was drawn, and in it you can see the chair when its folded. 

This drawing was started from a realistic 3d simulation of another Quarterbakery and Halfbakery idea of mine - the Pedal Assist. 




Tuesday, July 30, 2013

quarterbakery - robot kit

Quarterbakery idea: Robot kit -
Prefabricated robot controllers and parts



The difference between this and Lego Mindstorms, QFix Robot Kit, and other educational robot kits, is that:


  • No limit on size
      • This is for building robots of any size - NOT just for education
  • No computer language
      • There is a more "natural language" for programming. 
      • NO C or C++ or anything like that
  • No electronics
      • All parts are compatible
      • Connected in parallel and talk to each other 
      • Controller units that connect with each other

Each unit includes: 


  • A "controller unit" that connects to the other controller units
  • The "equipment part" - the part that moves or does the task that the controller controls. 
  • Command set:  A set of input and output commands that control the unit with a set "API"

The units include:
  • Coordinator (a brain) - note there can be several working together, in which case each will serve as a "brain section".
  • Access: arm, hand, finger
  • Motion: leg, leg pair, multilegs, wheel control
  • Visual input:  
    • Low level: Light detector, motion detector, infra red detector, distannce detector
    • Med level: Camera, camera eyes, scanner
    • Sight analyzer, OCR, 
  • Visual output: LEDs, LCD, LCD Screen, Video output
  • Audio input: simple (sound detection at different levels), complex: audio processing, speech detection, speech analysis and understanding
  • Manual control: mouse, joystick, 
  • Communications: Wifi, Bluetuth, USB etc
  • Accessories: powertools, printer, digital storage (usb stick or memory cards)