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pinkrobotics··on $100M xPrize for Carbon Removal
Soil could be something that is too easily overlooked.

If you had prodigious quantities of good soil, you could grow trees and food at sea, where we have lots of space to grow, especially at the equator.

The problem then becomes a floating platform, and controlling it all, but those seem less difficult.

pinkrobotics··on Modular Homes for Under $50k
To me it's a modern cabin. And a place to live while a primary residence is being built. And then it'll be a place for visitors to stay.

I absolutely love this, and I really want one. Have you sold many/any yet? What stage of development is the company at?

Also, what sort of time frame can I hope to just order one and have it show up in a month or two?

pinkrobotics··on Linux Terminal Tools [pdf]
wow, thank you! I did not know this. It will be very useful!
pinkrobotics··on Ask HN: Ambitious robotics entrepreneur with failing Kickstarter. Seeking advice
Hi! Thank you for all the feedback.

The creative destruction lab looks really cool, and I may ask for an introduction, but, I worry that I'm am not really trying to build a business here. I don't see a product or customers in growing forests robotically. It's just a forest. And the robots are to handle the scale, they are doing nothing a low skilled worker couldn't do.

I don't see any real business opportunity outside of selling carbon credits, but there are vastly more profitable ways to use land.

But it's a reliable and feasible solution to climate change nonetheless, and something I could theoretically do with funding. So, hence Kickstarter, a place where businesses don't need to be businesses! :)

Oh, I built a rover named Henry, but I can't quite say that he is a forest planting prototype.

pinkrobotics··on Ask HN: Ambitious robotics entrepreneur with failing Kickstarter. Seeking advice
Your image and words remind me of this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AD4b-52jtos&t=30m46s

Marketing and sales are the domains I am the worst at, maybe we should chat. Though, while I do foresee a market for carbon, I do not see much in the way for climate solving robots, only return is saving the world ;)

pinkrobotics··on Ask HN: Ambitious robotics entrepreneur with failing Kickstarter. Seeking advice
I could definitely improve the KS video and presentation a lot :)

And you are right, a likely good place for me to start, is in logging industry (forestry). Though, I was more hoping to build robots to create and maintain forests, not cut them down at scale more efficiently.

Making robots to hasten climate change may not be the right approach to solving it. Yet, the best customers I could get would be logging, mining or oil.

pinkrobotics··on Ask HN: Ambitious robotics entrepreneur with failing Kickstarter. Seeking advice
Well, for each hour of each day, I do need to choose to work on either one thing or another, not both. I hoped to spend the majority of my hours working towards saving our world from climate change. If I get a safety net job, the majority of my hours will be spent getting someone else rich.

Don't get me wrong. This is likely what I will need to do to pay for rent and food. I'm just not happy about it. And saddens me when I see large numbers elsewhere

pinkrobotics··on Ask HN: Ambitious robotics entrepreneur with failing Kickstarter. Seeking advice
Kickstarter at: http://www.PinkRobotics.ca
pinkrobotics··on Ask HN: Not smart enough to a programmer, where to take my life from here?
Do art. Find passion. Do passion.

Or,

Find love. Have children. Be a great parent.

Coding is just a tool, a means to an end, not a career. If you don't like using a keyboard/multimeter/hammer, don't work in an area that requires a keyboard/multimeter/hammer.

Painting and parenting can both be very rewarding, and make you very happy over a lifetime.

As for money, enough to get by, can be enough. Life doesn't have to be about ways to get money.