There are thousands of circuits and projects on the web, if you look, you can usually find something similar to what you are trying to do. From there it's a little easier to make changes, add to it. Really depends on what sort of projects you have in mind. I've seen a few hobby sites, where the author offered his services freelance, but don't recall anything recent (not something I had an interest, and have mostly been doing my own work lately). Some of the blog based sites, seem trust-worthy, but it's always a gamble on the web. A professional site, would probably cost you a bundle, as they would be more product oriented, and looking for a business or manufacturer to use their service. Mostly 'projects' are usually one-off (or a few for family and friends), products are a commercial interest.
If you are interested in doing something for yourself, might try posting your idea, and see if you can get some help getting started. You might be surprised to see what's available here, if you ask. It's a good chance your projects aren't entirely unique, and somebody has what you need, or has seen the project on the web.
Thank you very much, maybe I'm a little impatient. At the start, I thought getting some schematics and modify them little by little, until to obtain the project I desire. It will be cheaper, and I will learn more about electronic. And, of course, I will have a more accurated version of the device I want.
I know what you mean, perhaps the website will help you.
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Have a good day.
Ned
Thank you very much for the link.
Sparkty,
The question is do you want to launch something new based on your idea for the purpose of making money out of it?
If this is the case be ready for a long process, a lot of investment and a lot of time involved and you have to be also ready to spend more money than you gain because you are competing with lots of people and companies but the experience you will get is priceless (in a good way) and the next few ideas you will get just may pay off.
If I can make a suggestion I would say take your time, learn something new every day and try to do as much as you can by yourself with the help of this forum which is definitely the best place to start.
Mike
Mike, that's a very good answer. I really want to get some money from the device, basically it's based on an alternative energy device, aka as "free energy device". The question is... I want to spend a lot of time, resources and money until I have finished my project? The answer is No. I started 3 years ago thinking in an idea to get more money, to live a better life.
In these 3 years, I have lost all my friends, I have spent a lot of money and a really amount of hours learning and thinking, I lost my job, etc...
The effort I made was really big. Of course, I have learnt a vast amount of information about medicine (I started studying alternative medicine, before electricity).
The key is that I don't want to lose my job again, and I want to get a better quality of life. I stopped to learn about medicine because the few people I talked with, didn't want to try my advices. So, I was very dissapointed with the little results I obtained about medicine, of course, I cure a couple of animals (a dog and a bird), using a treatment I designed.
I also learned a priceless information, like why the body ages, what are the really causes of disease, etc...
I don't want to repeat the history again, because If I repeat the effort that I made with medicine, I know I will lost my job and I will have a lot of headaches and the problems will start again. And that is a nightmare for me. I have started learning electronics because I think selling a product is more quick than saying a person "I will cure you" and spend some time and effort doing it. Selling a device is more simple for me.
I know you understand what I mean.
Hi Sparky,
What would help is if you could tell us about what kind of circuits you need designed and built. It would help to briefly state the approximate complexity if that is possible...are they going to be missile guidance systems or just some blinking LEDs, or sophisticated intrumentation, etc. ?
We can often help with some of these things right here depending on how complex and specialized they need to be.
In the past i have used one method that works quite effectively to communicate with customers:
Design a Windows program that simulates what they want to 'see' in their device, possibly simulating various stimuli and possibly providing buttons and controls so they could do simulated adjustments. Once they are happy with the simulation program the design is worked up and plans and/or parts ordered/shipped off.
Thanks you very much for the idea. The project I want to build is a little uncommon.
It's based on an electrostatic amplifier. Basically, after reading a lot of information about "pseudoscience" and watching with my own eyes a machine that was putting out some kilowatts of power, using only a little battery, I believed in it.
The key is to create pure potential energy and amplify it(similar to electrostatic energy, but not the same). Starting with a 12 Volts battery, the voltage needs to be increased to some thousands of volts, so the amperage is reduced dramatically. Then, the High Voltage DC is stored in HV Capacitors, and then the energy is pulsed from those capacitors using a very short impulse time.
This idea is based in the Relaxation Time of the Conductors. The theory explains that initially, there is only pure voltage flowing in the circuit, and after the transient time (when there is only pure voltage), then current appears (electron flow, amperage).
If you get that pure potential and stores it in a capacitor, then you can perform work using the electrostatic energy stored in that capacitors. It's like an ion current instead of an electron current.
But you need to create very short, unidirectional pulses. Some electrostatic devices like the Whimshurts generator, has a very few of current, so it won't be valid. You need to have pure potential waves flowing in the circuit.
