/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2040604
>I just found a new method of producing variable electric power
What you did is overengineer one of these guys (pic related)
>how do i get this funded
Ya don't. Nobody's gonna invest in it for three reasons:
1. A knob with 2 wires is cheaper, easier to manufacture and easier to replace than some complex microchip controller
2. Whatever you made there probably already exists in machines that require fine tuning (you know how, on your phone, you can turn your volume up and down by actually not using any buttons and instead just touching the screen? Yea, that.)
3. You haven't even perfected the damn thing. I can tell that just by the fact that your circuit is on a fucking breadboard. You haven't even reached the point where you can call your invention done, let alone the moment where you can start to wonder how your machine would ever see use in the real world.
What are you gonna do? Patent this, then change it a little bit, then patent that too, then make another change, patent the 3rd prototype as well, and so on? Man, those guys at the patenting office are gonna love you. 50 patents for one device that ends up being worthless.
>funding to keep working on it
It's a chip and two resistors! You're not building spaceships for fuck's sake! You could get that shit for 15 bucks, even less if you have a thing for scavenging broken electronics (by the way, if you're really into electronics, buy a multimeter, then just gather all the electronic junk you can find and start taking it apart. I have a literal bucket of perfectly good components that I only paid my own work for.)
>probablybrainlet
your assumption is correct.