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LeaveTheMatrix

Thinking of posting a bunch of ideas on here, good idea or not.

Would it be frowned upon if I were to post a bunch of my ideas on here for others to just take and do whatever they want with them?

None are patented.

So I have a lot of ideas that I have collected over the past 20+ years or so and I will never be able to put them together or produce them.

They generally :

  1. Some are just written out but enough that someone could use the outlines to make a product with.

  2. Some are written out with basic designs/images.

  3. Some are written out, basic designs/images, and more elaborate details added.

The overall gist of it however is that I will never be able to do anything with them because:

  1. I can't afford patenting/getting lawyer.
  2. Health problems prevent me from working on most (even my hands are getting hard to use).
  3. Some, while I know what components are needed, require skills outside what I can do and I can't afford people with the expertise to assist.

Examples:

A very rough outline of a device I designed in 2007 for mine shaft rescues - http://www.worldthinktank.net/pdfs/Mine-Shaft-Rescue-Device-System_1.htm that never got developed. (I no long associate with that think tank)

A pair of gloves I was designing in 2010 for someone with disability who couldn't use mouse/keyboard - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OX8VwRUPsM (bad camera used, they died so project went on hold, although design has been greatly improved but I can't do component level work anymore)

  1. So would dumping ideas on here be an option?

  2. If I did, would it be better to do it one at a time over a period of time, do them in small batches (such as pdf files), or just all at once?

All I would want would be maybe a mention as the original person to originated the idea.

Posted Nov 21, 2023, 1:44 AM UTC

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Straight_Ad_4631•

Idea is just 10%(or even less) of the invention, the other 90% is the grunt work.

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LeaveTheMatrixOP•

For most of these I have done as much of the work as I can, some of them would be very easy for others to build but I just can't do it.

For example I have a design for a low wind collapsible vertical windmill that can be used on RVs/Travel trailers and have worked out all of the necessary components for it to be built ... but I can't even build a prototype.

So I figure why not drop the design online and let someone else take it further?

Or maybe someone could do something with the floating solar/wave powered saltwater desalination plant I originally designed 15+ years ago and have periodically updated over the years?

Maybe something more basic, like my device that would allow stroke victims with limited movement/who can't talk to connect to a computer/smart phone with a single digit and use military "tap code" for communication?

SIDE NOTE: Almost built that one years ago, developer had to pull out but still have the hardware. considered reviving it a few weeks ago after a friend had a stroke but she recovered faster than we thought she would.

I still have to decide if I am going to dump my plans online, but toying with the idea.

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adventureshirt•

There's a site called promptpal.net that allows usage of the paid versions of Dall E (ai image maker) and chatgpt4.5 turbo. Maybe describe your inventions and see if you can manipulate the software into sorting and illustrating your ideas. Then possibly look at Stephen Key or Invent Tribe and focus on licensing with a good sell sheet?

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Meerkat_Mayhem_•

Sure let the cool ideas fly!

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Level_One_56•

If your ideas are good enough file a PPO and try to sell it to someone that can bring it to life.

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LeaveTheMatrixOP•

What is a PPO?

If it costs money, I essentially can't afford to do it and especially with the shear volume of ideas that I have especially since I am always coming up with new ones all the time.

Example:

Just yesterday I was researching nylon super coils and that led me to designing a system that could be used as an alternative system to solar panels in areas of heavy snow fall where snow itself could be used to generate power.

Simple design really, snow falls on the device causing it to compress generating power. Some of that goes into a power bank and some feeds back to the device generating heat allowing for melting of the snow.

The melted snow is collected as water for later use, the device resets, more snow lands, repeat.

Each individual device would generate little power but a whole building of such devices? hmm

Such a system could be used in either heavy snow or rain areas where solar panels are not viable.

I can't build it myself but I have already come up with how the devices would need to be built and would function. Filing a patent is not something I can afford right now.

Maybe I will toss the design online and someone else can use it or just the description above is enough for someone else to run with it.

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Level_One_56•

sorry what I meant to say was PPA patent pending application. They cost aprox $80 but protects you for about a year from theft. Choose the best ones and try to sell them...just a thought.

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LeaveTheMatrixOP•

I can't afford even that.

Right now the g/f and I are living in a 30+ year old travel trailer in a family members back yard, just getting to the end of the month with enough food is hard (and that is with SNAP/food bank lol) while I am trying to file for disability.

While this is all going on my health is deteriorating.

But:

What made me come to thinking of doing this is seeing Youtube creators come up with ideas I originally had decades ago and taking them to production in just a few years (or less) and watching them go through the original mistakes I did in my designs.

Mistakes that I had already come up with solutions/fixes for.

In other words if they had my plans to start with, they could have cut off a lot of their design time.

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elwoodowd•

There are at least a few web sites for this. I posted a lot of far out stuff, a few years ago. Just got troll mostly, or those that didnt get the ideas, wanted details. But its the right sort of thinkers, if not my culture

Id encourage you to post as much as possible. Why not?

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afos2291•

Mind sharing what those sites are?

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