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Bob Martin

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Has anyone had good experience with an individual who does PIC or
Atmel design and programming at an affordable price?

I have found the businesses that do this are too expensive for my
non-commercial project, so I am hoping to find something more like a
gifted hobbiest who would like to earn some extra cash.

The projects are interesting but relatively simple.

Bob
 
Define "affordable price". Programmers do have to eat and pay the bills you
know.

Lionel...

Bob Martin <eeg_783@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Has anyone had good experience with an individual who does PIC or
Atmel design and programming at an affordable price?

I have found the businesses that do this are too expensive for my
non-commercial project, so I am hoping to find something more like a
gifted hobbiest who would like to earn some extra cash.

The projects are interesting but relatively simple.

Bob
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"Lionel Theunissen" <lionelth@big.net.au> wrote in message
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Define "affordable price". Programmers do have to eat and pay the bills
you
know.

Lionel...

Bob Martin <eeg_783@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Has anyone had good experience with an individual who does PIC or
Atmel design and programming at an affordable price?

I have found the businesses that do this are too expensive for my
non-commercial project, so I am hoping to find something more like a
gifted hobbiest who would like to earn some extra cash.

The projects are interesting but relatively simple.

Bob


What exacly are you planning ?, I can do some PIC stuff if you like
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depnends on what ? how Big ? and when you need it by though.
 
Hi,

If you do hobby stuff, may be you can also learn basic programming. It is
not that difficult.

Anyway, what do you mean by "affordable". You are right -- contract
designers are expensive. When I tell people my rates, some say "no, it is
too much", others say "when can you start?". Depends what your budget is.

Rudolf

"Bob Martin" <eeg_783@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Has anyone had good experience with an individual who does PIC or
Atmel design and programming at an affordable price?

I have found the businesses that do this are too expensive for my
non-commercial project, so I am hoping to find something more like a
gifted hobbiest who would like to earn some extra cash.

The projects are interesting but relatively simple.

Bob
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On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:36:41 +1000, "Rudolf Ladyzhenskii"
<rudolfl@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

Hi,

If you do hobby stuff, may be you can also learn basic programming. It is
not that difficult.

Anyway, what do you mean by "affordable". You are right -- contract
designers are expensive. When I tell people my rates, some say "no, it is
too much", others say "when can you start?". Depends what your budget is.
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I consider myself cheap - i bill at $125/hour. I reckon for h/w and
embedded you would have to go up on that simply due to problems that
maybe encountered by poor h/w design.
 
"Dacium" <dacium@hogwarts.com> wrote in message
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i bill at $125/hour

Honestly how many hours per week do you actually get at that rate?


The ratio of billable hours to actual hours is one of the reasons TRA will
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need to bill at that rate.
Cheers,
Alf
alfkatz@remove.the.obvious.ieee.org
 
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:33:15 +1000, Bob Martin <eeg_783@yahoo.com> put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Has anyone had good experience with an individual who does PIC or
Atmel design and programming at an affordable price?

I have found the businesses that do this are too expensive for my
non-commercial project, so I am hoping to find something more like a
gifted hobbiest who would like to earn some extra cash.

The projects are interesting but relatively simple.

Bob
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Approach your local Uni. Some student may need a little extra cash.
Otherwise, if you can program in BASIC, then consider PICAXE.


- Franc Zabkar
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Please remove one 's' from my address when replying by email.
 
"Rudolf Ladyzhenskii" <rudolfl@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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Hi,

If you do hobby stuff, may be you can also learn basic programming. It is
not that difficult.

Anyway, what do you mean by "affordable". You are right -- contract
designers are expensive. When I tell people my rates, some say "no, it is
too much", others say "when can you start?". Depends what your budget is.

Rudolf

"Bob Martin" <eeg_783@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ju7ef05sruadf081hrp8u1qmjemb7ohlor@4ax.com...
Has anyone had good experience with an individual who does PIC or
Atmel design and programming at an affordable price?

I have found the businesses that do this are too expensive for my
non-commercial project, so I am hoping to find something more like a
gifted hobbiest who would like to earn some extra cash.

The projects are interesting but relatively simple.

Bob
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Not knowing who the original poster was, my question is - what do you think
is a reasonable rate?

Rich.


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On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 22:00:23 +1000, "Dacium" <dacium@hogwarts.com>
wrote:

i bill at $125/hour

Honestly how many hours per week do you actually get at that rate?
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Thats why I bill at that rate. By market standard, that is cheap.
Include all the time you chase contracts and do sales - $125/hour
isn't a lot of money.
 
for pic work I could do some, but as I do not do it as a hobby so do
not have the required testing / development tools on hand. I left them
at the last place I worked (they where theirs)

all in all, you get what you pay for..

depending on how "small" the project / job is, it could take a
noticable about of time.

A


On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:33:15 +1000, Bob Martin <eeg_783@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Has anyone had good experience with an individual who does PIC or
Atmel design and programming at an affordable price?

I have found the businesses that do this are too expensive for my
non-commercial project, so I am hoping to find something more like a
gifted hobbiest who would like to earn some extra cash.

The projects are interesting but relatively simple.

Bob
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I do Atmel, either Basic or Assembler both hardware and software design.
Email me adrianjansen at internode dot net dot au for discussion and quote.

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Regards,

Adrian Jansen
J & K MicroSystems
Microcomputer solutions for industrial control
"Bob Martin" <eeg_783@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Has anyone had good experience with an individual who does PIC or
Atmel design and programming at an affordable price?

I have found the businesses that do this are too expensive for my
non-commercial project, so I am hoping to find something more like a
gifted hobbiest who would like to earn some extra cash.

The projects are interesting but relatively simple.

Bob
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On 16 Jul 2004, much to the astonishment of all present at aus.electronics,
Franc Zabkar blurted:
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On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:33:15 +1000, Bob Martin <eeg_783@yahoo.com> put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Has anyone had good experience with an individual who does PIC or
Atmel design and programming at an affordable price?

I have found the businesses that do this are too expensive for my
non-commercial project, so I am hoping to find something more like a
gifted hobbiest who would like to earn some extra cash.

The projects are interesting but relatively simple.

Bob

Approach your local Uni. Some student may need a little extra cash.
Otherwise, if you can program in BASIC, then consider PICAXE.


- Franc Zabkar
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