tevans
Hi friends Browsing around the instructables site I found this kid in Indonesia! His version of wal-e made of junk really impressed me.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Robot-real-size-LowCost-walle-made-from-water-pipe/
Specially because all the electronics are taken from old toys! I wrote him asking if he have heard about EZ-b. He said yes, but unfortunately have no money to buy one. So, I was wandering, with that kind of talent, what this kid would be able to do with an Ez-b in hands.. So, here is my proposition. Why don't we send him a board as a gift?! Mabe we could find 20 members that could contribute with, let's say, 15 dollars, and we could send him that? What you guys think? And, DJ, do you think the shop would be able to manage contributions and send him the kit? Just an idea... Greetings from Brazil!
@tevans, You haven't created an issue, you have the beginnings to some type of sponsor type scheme. All I'm saying is it needs structure, a well laid out plan and method for those wishing to gain such sponsorship to apply for it and for those of us willing to help out to be able to decide who receives such sponsorship.
It's the grounds for something great but with some refinement it could be a regular thing.
Sorry if I bothered you all, I just found out this forum this morning from an email sent by mr.Tevans, before I post about wall e. on Instructables, a year ago I post them in EZ-b Forum https://synthiam.com/Community/Questions/4613 , I've been thinking about what I can do for my wall. e and EZ-Board I think is the correct hardare but I never asked for free, I try to get it myself but I haven't been able to get it up to now, there are still many also charges that I have to spend my life and my mother. so it's hard to set aside money and collect it.
until then this morning I received an email from Mr. Tevans about it, I am very glad to hear it, and I really appreciate what you guys do
Sorry if there was any writing I was wrong, my English is very bad.
thankyou
@ricdart, your english is fine and you haven't bothered anyone. It is only that this has created a new topic that had not been discussed fully. Personally I am impressed by what you have done so I'm donating. (not the first time I've donated to a forum member)
@Troy and All, sorry I didn't read it all, once again I say thank you to all of you.
Eric Dirgahayu
Eric,
Welcome. Don't worry about the back and forth discussion about how we can make this a fair and regular process. I started that discussion sevral pages back in this thread and I do feel it is important, but whatever rules we come up with I believe you would qualify for your creativity. Just consider yourself the first EZ-Scholarship awardee of what I hope will become a regular process. I am very impressed with your Wall-E.
You can do two things to help in the coordination. If you could find out what the import duties and taxes would be on electronics (will be labeled "robot parts") shipped from China wih a value of $229 USD, and once you find out, tell us if you could afford that. If it is more than you can afford, we can work out another way, but it will take longer both due to shipping twice, and because we will need to raise more funds first.
We'll also need your shipping address, but we'll have you email that to Tevans or myself rather than posting publicly.
Alan
Thankyou Alan,
I feel flattered by what you think, wall.e is just lowcost robot made from unused water pipe
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for customs tax might I be exposed to 10% of the value of the package, and hopefully the money I collect for buy EZ-board for first, enough to pay his taxes.
Great to hear that the taxes will not be a problem! We'll Alan, I think now we need your PayPal so we can send you the money, ok? And Eric, please send your complete address to Alan so he can deal the shipment. ??
And guys, thank you for embrace the discussion and jump in. In Brazil we have an expression "Gentileza Gera gentileza" that's something like "kindness creates kindness" - and we know this world need some of that! Greetings.
Eric,
That is great, then we can have EZ-Robot ship directly to you.
All,
Let's get this started. We'll do it like a kickstarter project, where if we don't meet our goal within a specific period of time everyone will get a refund.
Goal: $229 USD (ships 1 dev kit to Eric) Stretch Goal: $458 (ships 1 dev kit to Eric and one dev kit to Dinesh - the kid from India who offered to trade design services for an EZ-B) Time Limit: 1/31/2015
Send donations to [email protected] via paypal or Amex Serve
I will update our total in this thread at least every 2 days.
I will eat the Paypal recipient charges.
If @DJ Sures or anyone else from EZ-Robot is still watching this thread, please let me know if there is a way we can combine users store credit for their donations and/or if you can/will give us a discounted price on the dev kit(s) either without losing the free shipping or enough of a discount to make paying for shipping worthwhile.
Alan