The purpose of this thread is to share an idea and engage with diyAudio community's members before deciding to commit. In short, it's an idea to sell Hi-Fi amplifier PCBs and donate half of the profit to OneDollarGlasses social enterprise and half to that of a participating members' own choice.
As age takes a toll on eyesight, I recall a month-long stay in the Kashmir region enjoying high alitutude trekking. On that adventure I came across families working as a cooperative with two or three generations sharing the work of intricate carpet weaving. 40 years on this memory still sticks with me: 1) because of my deteriorating eysight; and 2) the less savoury memory of so-called Do Gooders' crying Foul about Child Labour abuse. I recall seeing happy families put food on the table and spend the spare cash on sending their kids to school. With an optician likely beyond budget and hours away by bus, children, with their keen eysight, helped save families from hardship. Juxtaposition, those who had lost family or friends begged on the street!
On the theme of eyesight, I take my hat off to Martin Aufmuth the founder of OneDollarGlasses [https://www.eindollarbrille.de/en]. The social enterprise he founded enables people living in remote areas to get a skill (measure vision and construct glasses) and provide a service promoting welfare in remote communities by providing hand-made prescription glasses. Accusation of child labour in the 80's & 90's might have been less vociferous if ageing parents could see well enough to continue the art of intricate Persian-style weaving. Give a man a fish and he'll feed himself - teach him to fish and he'll feed a family. OneDollarGlasses teaches vision assessment, spectacles constructing and enterprise enabling an income and provision of glasses to those in need.
I have an amplifier design which I believe will be of interest to those seeking to self-build. My vision is to establish a small number of hubs in N and South America, Europe, Asia and Australasia. Essentially, the Gerber file would be made available to hub leaders who would sell PCB online in their respective regions. I would like to lead but not micro-manage in order allow allow flexibility for this idea to grow in a way that is manageable by those who participate. Should you have an interest in participating, please reply. I will publish my schematic if enough people show an interest. One person I would be keen to connect with is someone who is more skilled than me in board layout. If there is enough interest to bring this to fruition a marketing plan is in the making. It includes the help of a couple of my pals, whose names and music you'll be familiar with, who have suggested they could lend their name(s) to my yet nameless project initiative. My goal is to be ready to launch my project by the end of this year.
Thanks for reading,
Terry
As age takes a toll on eyesight, I recall a month-long stay in the Kashmir region enjoying high alitutude trekking. On that adventure I came across families working as a cooperative with two or three generations sharing the work of intricate carpet weaving. 40 years on this memory still sticks with me: 1) because of my deteriorating eysight; and 2) the less savoury memory of so-called Do Gooders' crying Foul about Child Labour abuse. I recall seeing happy families put food on the table and spend the spare cash on sending their kids to school. With an optician likely beyond budget and hours away by bus, children, with their keen eysight, helped save families from hardship. Juxtaposition, those who had lost family or friends begged on the street!
On the theme of eyesight, I take my hat off to Martin Aufmuth the founder of OneDollarGlasses [https://www.eindollarbrille.de/en]. The social enterprise he founded enables people living in remote areas to get a skill (measure vision and construct glasses) and provide a service promoting welfare in remote communities by providing hand-made prescription glasses. Accusation of child labour in the 80's & 90's might have been less vociferous if ageing parents could see well enough to continue the art of intricate Persian-style weaving. Give a man a fish and he'll feed himself - teach him to fish and he'll feed a family. OneDollarGlasses teaches vision assessment, spectacles constructing and enterprise enabling an income and provision of glasses to those in need.
I have an amplifier design which I believe will be of interest to those seeking to self-build. My vision is to establish a small number of hubs in N and South America, Europe, Asia and Australasia. Essentially, the Gerber file would be made available to hub leaders who would sell PCB online in their respective regions. I would like to lead but not micro-manage in order allow allow flexibility for this idea to grow in a way that is manageable by those who participate. Should you have an interest in participating, please reply. I will publish my schematic if enough people show an interest. One person I would be keen to connect with is someone who is more skilled than me in board layout. If there is enough interest to bring this to fruition a marketing plan is in the making. It includes the help of a couple of my pals, whose names and music you'll be familiar with, who have suggested they could lend their name(s) to my yet nameless project initiative. My goal is to be ready to launch my project by the end of this year.
Thanks for reading,
Terry