why is there no kickstarter-projects using parallella?

[piotr5]

admittedly raspberry pi has the advantage that an announcement can be made in their forums and reach much more people than an announcement here and in some zync forums. however, why even seek audience in forums on hardware you use? shouldn't you rather announce in the places dealing with your actual application? for example a software-defined radio project should be announced in sdr communities, so why is there no kickstarted for the new sdr project? is adapteva so rich that they can easily afford pushing out a sdr-plugin without much help?

another possibility for parallella kickstarter is to mimic and collect some money for paying professional programmers to make parallella useful for clusters of various kinds. parallella consumes much less power per core than Pi. if you'd reduce the actual fpga usage it would also create much less heat than Pi. now is the best time to announce such a thing!

[tnt]

A kickstarter only gives you money ... it won't help you find people or time to actually implement something. And starting one without having theses figured out first is a bad idea ...

The FMC breakout used in the SDR platform that adapteva presented was done by someone else for their own usage, and just shared. As for the code, it's using the reference design from ADI that they did for the FMCOMMS board. AFAIU I don't think they're planning to develop it more, just do a production run of the adapter.

[piotr5]

well, money buys you time and workforce. so you really don't need to tackle that before kickstarter-campaign. what you need is an idea and some research to show that the idea can be turned into something concrete and how much that would cost, exactly.

so this company is so rich that they could just create a parallella module out of nothing and it will work with all boards? even if they are, kickstarter does attract people, it attracts investors. the bigger the userbase supporting the kickstarter the better the ratings of the company...