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Top 10 Gadgets of 2012

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Ask HN: What Mobile/Web Apps Will You Like To Have/See?

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50 Augmented Reality Marketing Ideas

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Ask HN: Hardware/Software Community Service Ideas/Projects?

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Qii - Full Sized & Pocket Sized Rollable Smartphone Keyboard

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Ask HN: How Do I Inspire College/High-School Students To Work With Me?

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- I think the best way to get into hardware, is to work on DIY/Electronic Projects (like you plan on doing).

- To go from prototype to completed product, requires alot of patience and resilience. Do you plan on using PCBs as well? If you do, do you know about OrCad or Eagle?

- I'll like to work with you, (if you don't mind).

Thank you for your response ghubbard.

My sales pitch is that

1. I have projects available that can make them get money (and skills on their resume), since they (and I) really need it.

2. Im ready to train them (as I'll be paying for their time as well), because although they are CS & IT Students, they've not been taught how to program good.

3. Im willing to work on their schedule (since many of them are students)

4. They can tell me what programming language or projects they'll like to learn (or interested in) and I'm willing to get what they want.

But still, it's almost as if everything I've done is a waste of time.

Is there something I don't know? Am I doing something wrong?

Am I crazy? They need money and I have a way of getting it for them, but yet no one wants to work. Like please, why is that?

What bothers me is not incompetent people, but rather incompetent people who don't want to be competent. Like in the beginning (of every skill), I believe that we are all incompetent/naive but as time goes on, you have those who try to advance and develop their skills and those who just don't care. It's the one's that don't care, that bothers me.