I’m not in the tech community, but I have an idea for a device I want to get made (just for my own convenience; nothing commercial or for an organization). Is there an existing platform for soliciting someone to build an electronic gadget for me?

  • EnterOne@lemdro.idOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hey, wow this blew up! I should turn notifications on. I want a programmable IR volume knob. Just a big, chunky knob to set on the table or couch to control my home theater receiver. No Bluetooth or Wifi or zigbee or anything like that. That’s all.

    • testfactor@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Gotcha. The tricky part with that is gonna be that it’s specific to the model of your entertainment system.

      Means that if whoever you have working on it is non-local, they’ll need to find a duplicate of your entertainment system to test on to make sure it works, which is obviously not super feasible.

      If a local buddy asked me to build something like that, I had the time, and I charged fair market value for the work, you’re probably looking at a couple grand.

      If it was a good buddy and I only charged for parts, it’d probably be only a hundred bucks or so?

      I wouldn’t even really consider doing it as a remote job, as getting a copy of your receiver is more trouble than it’s worth I think. Depends on the receiver to some degree though I guess.

      • EnterOne@lemdro.idOPEnglish
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        1 year ago

        That’s insightful, thanks. Not knowing the subtleties of it, I imagined they would just need to make sure the thing has an IR receiver and is programmable, which they can test with whatever remotes and associated devices they have around. Then I could program the finished thing with my remote at home.