Difference between revisions of "Help wanted"

Revision as of 12:01, 11 October 2010

Want to help out with the Eggbot project?

Great! We'd love to have you on board!

The Egg-Bot is an open source hardware+software project. If you'd like to be a collaborator, we'd love to have you on board. Right now most of our work is done through the Google Code Project, please contact us if you'd like to be added as a committer.

Here are some of the current places in which we're looking for help:

General use:

• Finding and reporting bugs in the Eggbot Inkscape extension. (Report them here, please!)
• Finding and reporting bugs in Inkscape that affect Eggbot operation. Where appropriate, we report these to the Inkscape developers, with the hope that they can get fixed for us.
• Providing feedback and corrections on our documentation.
• Creating good example plots that will help people to get started with Eggbot.

Software:

• Improving the "optimize paths" extension. Can we make this efficient?
• Writing additional "generator" extensions (like the maze extension) that can produce interesting eggbot plots
• Porting the eggbot extension python code to work in a "standalone" mode outside of Inkscape
• Controlling Eggbot from other software environments, e.g., Processing

Hardware:

• Improving documentation on fine-tuning performance
• Helping us come up with ways to reduce cost in future versions
• Creative hacks to improve the capability of Eggbots

Above and beyond:

• If you can fix any of those Inkscape bugs that are getting in our way, we'd certainly appreciate it. :)

• Inkscape's "Cancel" button doesn't work while plotting
• Live path effect "Hatches (rough)" doesn't work on complex geometries.

Also, Help Wanted

Evil Mad Science LLC is a tiny company currently looking to expand. You, by virtue of landing on this page, must be our sort of person! We need efficient, detail-oriented people who can tolerate eccentricity and have an affinity for strange little robots and/or things that go blink in the night.

We're looking for one to several part time or full time people. Temporary or long-term. Students & interns too. We need people to help us assemble kits, pack and ship, manage our web sites, perform various administrative functions, and to develop and refine current and future products. No particular experience is needed, but you should be located near (and willing to commute to) Sunnyvale ("the heart of silicon valley") California and willing to do at least some of those things. ;) Please contact us if you'd like to come by for an interview.