Eric,

Thanks for following my Low Cost Gravimeter project.  I see several of the projects you follow have geophysics tint to them. Can you take a few minutes and write out some ideas of what you want to do?  You can call it "Exploration Project 1" or something non-descript.  Then just write anything and everything that you might have in mind.  It does not have to be possible with current technologies.

One of my criticisms of Hackaday.IO is that it does not do more to encourage and nuture large scale projects. Right now it is mostly small groups.  (Maybe I had better find a way to count the groups by size, and by contributed content, and implicit external connection density.  I haven't actually counted.  LOL!)

If you are good at integrating things, perhaps you can make your "project" something like "following certain kinds of projects" and helping out.  Or "getting groups and people to work together".

Whatever you do, I hope you will say hello to everyone and write your ideas, even if you don't have specific things in mind.  If I know what you want to do, I can try to keep it in mind and if I run across things send them your way.  There are some things I am really good at, and a complete novice at others.

Most of the things I want to do require skills I do not have.  I am not sure what to do.  I can do theory, models, calibrations, and large groups. But most of my attempts end with a clear idea of how to process the data, but not being able to put the pieces together to gather the data and process it in real time, selecting what is critical.  I have tried most of the geophysical and scientific sensors. But the proprietary things, high price, and high cost of the development environments defeats me. One thing that has held me up since last summer is not being able to gather raw camera data in real time from time of flight and RegionOfInterest cameras.  The delay in building things has given me time to review everything I ever read and thought about how the gravitational potential works.  It is really exciting, but also rather depressing, not to be able to test and build things that I am fairly certain will work.

Thanks.

Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation