Chapter 606: Crowdfunding

Sitting on the chair, Sun Yan twisted his body uneasily, and looked cautiously at the top of his head from time to time, as if there was some danger there.

It was so bad that she began to regret why she had listened to someone's bewitchment?

There's nothing wrong with her from the neck down, a home-style pink and green T-shirt and pajama pants on her body still can't stop her slender figure, once again proving the general rule that a good face is good and everything looks good, but if you look up from her line of sight, you can see a strange device hanging above her head.

From a distance, she looked no different from the kind of machine she used to perm her hair in a hairdresser, leaning back in a chair with a metal stand behind her and a hemispherical structure attached to the top hanging over her head.

However, if you look closely, the details are very different. From below, the hemisphere is solid, stuffed with mechanical structures that make you dizzy at first glance.

Qi Linlin, who was sitting opposite her, noticed Sun Yan's uneasy expression, shook Erlang's legs and comforted her with a smile: "Anla Anla baby, today is just a challenge to a slightly more complicated hairstyle, it will be fine!"

Shen Mo, who was holding the bracket behind her, also spoke to comfort his girlfriend, "What King Lin said is right, we have tried it on wig models before, and we guarantee that it will be fine." ”

"Just tried it once?" Sun Xiang said that he was in the mood to shi, and secretly complained in his heart: "I only tried it once on the model, and you dare to pull me to the real person for the test, do you want to be so hasty? Shen Xiaomo, what do you mean?"

"Isn't this a tight budget, don't worry, I will help you watch it, there will be no problem. ”

"You just toss!" After speaking, Sun Yan closed his eyes and remained silent.

"Then shall I start?" asked in a low voice, Shen Mo helped Sun Yan tie a haircut scarf, the pure blue scarf can not only prevent hair conditioner and hair loss from contaminating clothes, but also have the effect of filling the field of sight to improve the resolution of the optical sensor, and then he pressed the button to start the machine in front of him.

With the slight click of mechanical friction, the hanging hemisphere blooms like an anemone, turning out six slender "petals" from the inside out.

Seeing this scene again, she had seen it many times, Qi Linlin still couldn't help but think of the blood droplets that specialized in picking human heads and all kinds of mechanical octopuses, so she opened her mouth and said to Wu Pan next to her: "Dear, can't you make this shape straight?

"How come?" Wu Pan looked intently at the equipment that was being launched for self-inspection, and asked without looking back: "Don't you think that the current self-opening looks like a Transformer, it's cool?"

"Dizzy!" Encountering the difference in thinking between men and women, Qi Linlin was also so angry that she held her forehead, and sighed: "Transformers are played by boys of all ages, Wu Dapan, it's so cold, do you still want to make money for women?"

Hearing his girlfriend speak on behalf of the target user, Wu Pan also had to pay attention to it, turned to look at her and explained: "In the future, when the shape is finalized, it will definitely have to be changed, and the shell must be there." However, Linlin, don't you think this seems very intelligent and professional?"

"Professional and can't be eaten, besides, you guys are a hairdresser that claims to get a hairstyle in 3 minutes, and it's not good to sell it to a hairdresser, so you have to be cute at home, right?"

"That's just as well. ”

At the time of the conversation between the two, the so-called combing machine qì person had already started working.

When fully deployed, its robotic arm covered the top of Sun Xiang's head, and the six ends were equipped with three-finger manipulators, as well as tools such as ion combs, hair clips, sprayers, hair binders, etc., and combing her hair while spraying the medicine quickly straightened her hair. Then the pair of manipulators began to grasp the hair, relying on the fine measurement of the sensor and the accurate output of hydraulic and pneumatic power, this pair of "hands" can be as gentle and precise as the hairstylist's hands.

Feeling the end of the "construction" on her head, Sun Yan opened her eyes, and Shen Mo hurriedly handed a mirror to her like a dog, and asked flatteringly: "How is it?

However, it was his girlfriend's shaking of his head that answered him.

Seeing that Shen Mo's face suddenly collapsed, Sun Yucai smiled and stretched out his hand to poke him: "Stupid, I'll just try to see if it will disperse." ”

"Oh, it won't be scattered, it won't be scattered!" Shen Mo hurriedly explained: "Even if you even do 30 forehand flips, you won't scatter, unless you scratch and scratch, by the way, it's best to use a machine to do it when you remove the hairstyle, it will be very slow to dismantle it with your bare hands." ”

Nodding his head in understanding, Sun Yan asked, "By the way, how is the video?

"I'll take a look later," Wu Pan on the side shook the tablet in his hand and said, just now a total of four miniature cameras and a flying camera QÌ person pointed at Sun Yu, recording all the things that happened on her head, and at this moment the tablet in his hand was receiving the video number they sent back.

Because the whole process was only more than two minutes, Wu Pan quickly fast-forwarded and checked the five original video materials, and nodded to confirm that the video was fine.

"Oh, then you guys are busy, Sister Linlin can help me get dressed!"

As soon as the scarf was uncovered, Sun Yan couldn't wait to stand up with the handrail, and beckoned Qi Linlin to leave together, as for the later stage of the video, of course, the two bosses did it themselves.

After the start of school next month, all four of them will enter their last academic year, and they have no plans to go abroad to take the civil service examination or anything, so the issue of work is naturally put in the first place.

Sun Xiang Qi Linlin has become an intern of Jiajing Group's Guyunzhai Clothing, if there is no problem, she should be successfully hired at this time next year, while Shen Mo and Wu Pan are busy tossing their grinding plate technology, planning to formalize it and report it to the school as a college student entrepreneurship project, which can be regarded as a response to the call of the national mass entrepreneurship and innovation, thinking that it should be able to mix some support or something.

Since it is planned to be done as a business, the original project of assembling a set-top box with biscuit cards can no longer be continued, after all, this thing has the risk of playing a policy sideline. And it has no core competitiveness, there are more and more similar products on Taobao, and the profits are getting thinner and thinner, and it is not too distressing to give up now.

However, their new project is not far from the cookie card, it was originally used to make a TV box, but this time it is used to make a machine.

While the Bee Card started out as just one of a few copycats of the Raspberry Pi board, it has now taken a completely different path.

The Raspberry Pi runs a modified Linx open source system, and users can find more available software in the open source community, and write and modify the software or even the system themselves, such as Android or the latest win10 system to run on it.

However, the road to the cookie card is getting more and more closed, and one generation it was still equipped with a special version of Linx like the former, but later it was replaced with the bee system biscuit version, and kept up with the mobile game consoles and other products, the reason is that it is convenient for users to use their upgraded performance.

Naturally, this move has attracted fierce criticism from open source people, and several open source communities have even closed the cookie card discussion board in protest.

But that didn't change Bee's determination, and this year, the new version with a new 41x processor still only runs a closed system, and even introduced an all-in-one cookie box with a cookie card. Although the sales of the latter are very average, because of the huge amount of use, more than 300,000 copies were digested. Coupled with various third-party products such as gambling machines, set-top boxes, compatible machines, etc., as well as the amount of user upgrades, Bee sold nearly 2 million copies in the first half of the year alone.

There are 4,000 pieces contributed by the mill brothers, for developers who are accustomed to open source software, closed source will make them constrained, all kinds of restraints, all kinds of unfreedom, but for people like Shen Mo and Wu Pan who basically don't know programming, and just learned a little bit of basic skin in college computer courses, it is perfect for cookie cards that emphasize foolishness, visualization, and modular development.

Relying on the high efficiency of its own BC programming platform in basic programming, Bee only took more than a year to build a preliminary mature cookie card development platform, which not only surpassed the three years of accumulation of the Raspberry Pi community in terms of software, but also far exceeded in compatibility, which is especially beneficial to novices, and they do not need to waste time to fight against various BG and incompatibility, so it is obviously worth losing some development freedom and money.

Bee has prepared an intimate free template library, hardware development kit and technical support services for the biscuit platform, buy the development kit to find a picture and assemble it, and then follow the bootstrap to brush the free template, you can have your own smart camera, mini aircraft, micro machine qì people. If you feel that it is not perfect enough, you can also improve it yourself, or Krypton invites them to improve it on your behalf, you only need to clearly describe the modification goal, and pay the full fee, and millions of CTA members and hundreds of senior siege lions are waiting to be sent at any time.

And Shen Mo and the two of them were pitted by this free template.

There are a complete scheme of bipedal, multi-legged, wheeled, flying and so on, Shen Mo combined the two arm-type machines to create a combing machine that can comb a single / double ponytail, and then gave it to Sun Xiang as a birthday gift and harvested a fragrant kiss.

When he decided to give up the set-top box and start looking for a new project, Shen Mo came up with a plan for a more advanced hair combing machine, striving to create a home-oriented hair combing machine that can solve the problem of time-consuming and laborious combing for female users.

This is obviously a shrewd plan, female consumers have always spent several times more on clothing accessories than men, and combing their hair and making hairstyles is indeed a problem that plagues a considerable number of women, after all, not everyone likes black and straight and short ears. If you can solve this pain point, why can't you make a lot of money?

But soon, they realized that they were thinking too simply.

Shen Mo's first-generation comb can only comb a simple ponytail, and he can't even braid it, so the second-generation machine needs to be redeveloped.

At first, the two of them modified and optimized the mechanical structure and drivers by themselves, but borrowed the 3D printer from the innovation center and the CNC center to make Zuò parts, and the development cost was very low. But soon the project fell into a bottleneck, and the "empty-handed" simulation was normal, but when it came to the real person's head, there was a problem of pulling his hair, which made Shen Mo, who was brave enough to act as a tester, scream in pain.

The reason is naturally the problem of control accuracy, the mechanical arm driven by the motor is too cumbersome, and the guide is too strong, but fortunately, the hardware problem can also invite assistance, and finally solve the problem of plucking. But after coming and going, the 200,000 yuan that the two of them earned from selling set-top boxes before was almost reimbursed.

The four of them just shot a video of combing their hair in order to send the project to Bee Crowdfunding and raise a fund for further development.

Internet crowdfunding soon changed its flavor after it arrived in China, e-commerce platforms such as cats and tengu took it as a new product launch, and the crowdfunding was a completed version of the mass production product, so that early bird users lost the opportunity to participate in the design, and friends on major social platforms would play, and directly turned it into a crowdfight, and if you want to change your mobile phone, you can crowdfund it among friends, and it is enough for a few dollars per person.

Bee's crowdfunding is also a flavor version, more of a platform for bees to obtain product demand by themselves, and it is not fashionable "makers" who initiate crowdfunding, but users who are dissatisfied with existing products.

Their recently launched interactive crowdfunding is closer to foreign crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter in form, but it adds video interactive elements to it, and the initiator must regularly upload videos to 2 stations, or simply open a live broadcast in Swan so that users can watch it up close.

This promotional demonstration video doesn't need to add special effects or anything, Wu Pan just interspersed and spliced together 5 pieces of material according to the predetermined plan, and it was about the same, so he sent a message to ask his girlfriend: "Are you okay over there?"

Since interactive crowdfunding has a video element, of course, they want to maximize their advantages, in addition to an introduction video of clear soup and white water, they also plan to make a short video patch in the style of an advertisement to the back of Sun Xiang's dance video, with the help of the latter's fans to pull popularity.

As a well-known Hanfu party in 2 stations, Sun Xiang has more than 100,000 followers, and the average number of views of her ancient dance videos is more than 200,000. Although Qi Linlin, who was pulled into the pit by her, was careless because of her late start, she still gained 30,000 fans by relying on her appearance of more than 7 points and Wu Pan's more professional post-production skills.

This time, the two of them danced together with their swords, which must have hit a higher playback record, and the attention of the combing machine will inevitably increase.