Introducing Synthiam, in beta mode!

I'm not familiar with many other services than Thingiverse, but I believe their layout is very intuitive and could be adjusted for the Synthiam focus. I would like to see users be able to:

1. Upload designs
2. Comment on said designs
3. Download/modify and give credit
4. Charge for the printing of the part if requested. Perhaps you could have it tiered, where you could opt for your design to be free use, or pay for use. Pay for use would require a fee to download the file, free use would add it to the cloud for anyone to access, much like Thingiverse does now. Designs could also be updated, not reposted, allowing those who are learning to get comments and revise their design.

I have a suggestion for the website having read the 3D printing idea which I thought was awesome. I feel if the intent is to cater to the DIY crowd there should be a full robot DIY scheme to it. Not just the controller. For example, nice DIY sites I have seen would have sections broken down into categories like this

Controllers sub group or discussions Software sub group or discussions Actuators  sub groups or discussions Power Supplies  Sensors

and on and on.

In the current format there is no way to look for specific question in specific fields. I would like to click on a group for sensors and only see discussions about sensors.

Perry

Hey Perry - we've designed the database for something similar. I'm avoiding having a traditional messy category style forum and instead there will be something like tags that are assigned to relate all content together. You'll see what i mean as it slowly develops over the next while. You may not have noticed but there's new features to this website added every two days in the evening between 5-6 pm. Some are minor tweaks but others are larger.

Soon all hardware will be related through a new interface as well. Plus a bunch of new hardware we're adding to the software, and some other goodies

Thanks DJ. I am noticing changes here and there. Lots of plugin work as well.  Anxious for the 'bunch of new hardware' part.

To be clear, if I’ll be quoted, it should be as stated a bunch of new hardware added to the software

Synthiam will never make hardware. Instead, as I mentioned before, we’ll add support for as much hardware as we come across. For EZ-Robot specific hardware questions, you can contact them through the website at www.ez-robot.com

To whom it may concern.

I am having a little problem with the "Search" section here.

Go to the search box (top left of page) and type something in, lets say "Speakers". Click on go. It will then take you to a page with all the search results for Speakers. Click on any box to see one result. The next step is where I am having trouble. If you click on the "go back one page button, on the browser", it takes you to the main Synthiam page. How do I go back to the search page with all the search blocks?

@Herr Ball  Until this is fixed (or in case it isn't), if you hit control (or command on a mac) when you click a link, it will open the results in a separate browser tab, so your results will still be open in the initial tab.

Alan

Snapfish had a sale on photo mugs and I love coffee so I present my "Synthiam Coffee mug" to help get my robot creativity going!