I am a startup with a budget not comparable to a large company.
I need two different AR and VR device prototypes built which take advantage of the DLP technology.
While I have been successful in finding programmers to write software for these devices, engineers in designing the mechanical parts and cases for these devices and general optical engineers, none from all the freelacer communities I have visited are able to:
1) Build DLP boards with my requirements as the DLP ecosystem is very specialized and closed (in the sense of documentation, support, devkits being only in this website). Those who have taken on the job of building the board over the course of 6 months have failed to complete the job.
2) While there are few Chinese manufacturers of optical engines for the devices I need and I have checked few of them and they are very nice, I need for one project to modify the optical engine and in another to just swap the projection lens barrel with another one. Since your Chinese partners do not provide CAD files for their optical engines, my freelancers have offered to build from scratch the optical engines but again all have failed due to complexity and secrects/know-hows related to building such engines (for example, what LEDs to use, what optics, where to source them.)
So at this point, after having wasted 6 months with several freelancers, I have to ask, where can I find a freelancer who will be able to do the above two jobs? Perhaps those freelancers are only visiting this forum/community.
Otherwise I just have no choice but go with LCoS. Unless the user wants to make a pico or standard projector product you guys don't leave much choice with your closed community and development environment. Please prove me wrong.
