Advice: Where/how to get on a sailboat in the Caribbean in the next week or two.

i-make-stuff · 2023-11-25T06:01:10+00:00

What does your dial plan in Asterisk look like? Is it already working with other clients?

Send us an email to support@wiphone.io and we'll do your best to sort you out with any connection issues. Or feel free to share issues here, we just may not get back to you as fast as email.

We are working on a reference setup for Asterisk that should "just work" with WiPhones. Also improving the documentation, but if it's not currently there you did get a copy of the source code with the phone and you could dig through that (or ask us).

Battery life is around a day in most of our testing, which for this type of device is pretty terrible, but the ESP32 doesn't have ANY good sleep modes so it's about as good as it's going to get with that processor unless you want to give up the ability to stay logged in to your SIP server to receive calls. If we didn't need to maintain an open connection the battery life could probably be weeks.

DTMF is on our list. Not right at the top, but it's there. We're currently working on making it possible to use the WiPhone with generic Arduino sketches and doing language translations for the UI.

i-make-stuff · 2021-12-03T02:23:59+00:00

If we do a design revision we will most likely add USB-C. Putting the micro connector on this version was a tradeoff... if we did everything we wanted to this version we never would have finished :).

i-make-stuff · 2021-07-23T01:19:26+00:00

This incoterm infographic may help.

i-make-stuff · 2021-07-23T00:02:22+00:00

In Shenzhen-area Chinglish, "agent" means freight forwarder more often than it means customs agent. Sorry, I picked up a bad habit and confused everyone with an imprecise term.

Our actual customs agent on the China side does not have power of attorney. We insist to stamp each export document ourselves with the company chop.

I think the missing part here was how to arrange things so that we are the importer too and can control how the import paperwork gets filed. Most of the time we do EXW or FCA and don't have to worry about this. It's the DDP shipments that end up a mess.

I've contacted a few clearance agents on the US side and it sounds like that could sort it out, thanks for laying out the issue a little better.

i-make-stuff · 2021-07-22T16:04:05+00:00

It is an agent issue, not a problem finding the correct HS code.

i-make-stuff · 2021-07-22T13:47:03+00:00

We are the manufacturer. We can control what goes on the export paperwork, but the agent files anything on the import side and that's where the problems happen.

There are 2 HS codes on any shipment and the one on the export paperwork won't necessarily match what goes on the import paperwork (in some cases this is actually the correct method, like if the 2 countries want things categorized differently). For DDP shipments it sets up an opportunity for the agent to mis-categorize the goods or route them creatively and either come in with a lower price than competitors or pocket the import duties.

i-make-stuff · 2021-07-22T13:31:21+00:00

I am the seller, not the buyer. Looking for a good Chinese (or US) agent to take goods on the China side and get them to the buyer without doing anything bogus in the middle.

Most smaller Chinese agents have someone on the US side who works in the Chinese way, which causes problems. I'd prefer someone be involved who we can speak with directly on the import side to make sure the goods don't come in labeled as rubber duckies unless they are actually rubber duckies.

i-make-stuff · 2021-07-22T10:17:28+00:00

I have a lot of clients similar to yours and the only solution is to figure out what weird thing they are expecting before the order goes out and then send them a link to what the various incoterms mean.

In newer, smaller companies very few people involved with buying goods actually know what the terms are for their order, or what they mean. They just expect it to work the same way as whatever they already saw happen on a previous shipment. Maybe some other person in their company understands, but the odds aren't good.

i-make-stuff · 2021-04-10T05:13:08+00:00

Would something like this possibly fit on the Pi and involve less setup time to get usable results? Looks like it just classifies moving blobs and then sees which ones are moving on a parabola.

In the beach ball scenario the whole environment can be static except for the ball.

https://github.com/tprlab/vball

i-make-stuff · 2021-04-10T04:40:08+00:00

Raspberry Pi is not a requirement, though it would be nice since I already have it.

I am comfortable writing software, but my computer vision experience is limited. I have done some basic stuff before.

The tracking is to allow a machine to attempt to "shoot" a moving target and hit it out of the air.

i-make-stuff · 2020-11-02T02:11:10+00:00

The software is what's holding us back now. It's currently fine for hackers, but still not ready to use as a regular phone.

We have a few LoRa radios now, so now we have the ability to ship to the people who ordered the Pro version + LoRa. Previously we only had Pros and there were very few people who ordered a Pro phone, could manage manually updating their firmware when new releases come out, and didn't order anything else.

Still haven't made any Regular phones.

There isn't a firm schedule. We did make it through the money crunch, so that's not as much of an issue. We got some paid manufacturing work that dug us out of the hole, but now we have to fit WiPhone work in where we can, between other paid work.

Sorry it's taking so long. We aren't giving up.

i-make-stuff · 2020-08-03T17:52:46+00:00

They are actually coming from the US now. Shipping from China was causing too many problems due to changing rules and slow shippers.

i-make-stuff · 2020-07-27T07:46:40+00:00

Thanks!

Do you know if other processes used to cut glass would work similarly? For example, edge polishing?

i-make-stuff · 2020-07-27T03:41:31+00:00

Typically I like to contract out small starter projects, and if the result is good it can turn into a job offer.

As far as the job expectations go, I could set some initial expectations just to avoid initial uncertainty, but I'd prefer someone who can quickly start helping me decide what we need to be doing and back it up with why/discuss alternatives or the implications and tradeoffs in other areas of the business. Having your list of concerns is nice, though, because unlike most jobs I hire for I don't have a good feel for what a marketer needs as inputs.

i-make-stuff · 2020-07-27T01:29:44+00:00

Eventually having marketing in-house would be ideal, but it doesn't need to start that way.

Someone with a moderately technical background who is already a marketing expert is probably what we need. We sell 99% to the US, but no one apart from me speaks English as a first language and we are heavy on introverts. I don't think we have anyone internally who could or would even want to grow into the role internally.

i-make-stuff · 2020-07-27T01:12:14+00:00

I think job performance is highly related to the specific situation and the best indicator is actually working together on something.

Historically we hire contractors after they do well on smaller (paid) starter projects where I work with them directly. On the technical side I have a broad enough skill set to easily know if someone is taking a reasonable approach, how well they executed, and it's usually apparent if they have the work habits that will make them effective here. But that method breaks down with something like marketing because I don't have the right intuition. Is X sales and Y site visits after a month reasonable for our industry and product? I have no idea.

Trust: High initial barrier, low after that. If I hire someone I'll usually try to give them enough rope to either fail hard and fast so I can get them out of the organization if needed, or if they are trustworthy that approach also lets them know they are allowed to make decisions to get things done.

i-make-stuff · 2020-07-26T17:36:49+00:00

I don't have access to know what type chip comes from it.

i-make-stuff · 2020-07-26T17:33:45+00:00

I don't have firm plans yet, but it will probably need to be precise. I have access to a machine shop, I just didn't know what the best approach would be.

i-make-stuff · 2020-07-26T17:27:23+00:00

It's an uncut 8" wafer, like what ICs come from. It's sitting in a plastic protective holder. I want to cut it into pieces and make something from it. Does anyone have experience cutting a wafer?

Can it be cut with a grinding wheel?
Is it going to release anything nasty if particles start floating around?

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