User:Smartfriendz
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Hi,
Who am I
Almost 50 years old autodidact french with mecanics and electronics school background.
20 years in one sentence : Has been in music industry, video game industry (3d animator), startup 3d animated characters (cantoche.com) , web applications development, mobile development ( w6developpement.com ) and now 3d printing development.
Smartfriendz is an entity designing educational hardware kits useful for everyday's life.
The main goal of Smartfriendz is to try to bring a maximum of persons to DIY and repair yourself instead of just let them consume and consume again . Also, the money won by selling kits or doing crowd funding campaigns is used to improve the project , design new things, make good documentation in may languages and support . I know this vision looks like a complete utopia but ... look at the software world. What would it be now without those crazy open source guys doing great software for free ? You would pay $500 for your operating system, $50 for each silly little game and the same for any unzip software. I believe we can keep the good work and make everybody know you can have a decent , reproducible, easy to assemble 3d printer for under $400.
The first project designed is the Smartrap_mini . It will be my base for the selling 3d printers kits, so it will be updated regularly and supported.
I'm actually also working thinking hard on an smartphone controller working with actual electronics. Same vision than with hardware : it should be free, open source and funded by the community ? Enyone could then improve it.
