We move into a new phase
by nandeep
We are 9 Circuits. We started an year ago with the aim of bringing high quality electronic components to India and enabling people to easily use this hardware. This venture was started due to our own frustration of not being able to procure the items that we needed. We also noticed that a large number of people were not aware of the wide variety of components available that make their task easier. We found the need. And we kick started to fulfill this need.
We have learnt quite a bit on this journey. Our sales were just enough to sustain us and give us time to learn a lot about the components that we are selling and how we can enable people to use them. Our efforts were solely directed at analyzing the Indian market requirements and needs of hobbyists, students and enthusiasts.
This research of ours has led to several developments at 9 Circuits which I shall outline below:
- We will now be moving our focus from being a retailer to a product company. We are planning to release at least a dozen tiny products that we have developed seeing the customers needs and most required softwares/toolchains/boards that have not been made by anyone else. All our products will be open source, hardware and software both! Stay tuned to see what goodies we unleash upon the electronics world.
- All that we have learnt in this domain will be released as open content and provide all knowledge for free. We owe where we are to all the great content out there. We plan to do the same.
- We also noticed that there is a big workshop culture in India. Almost everything is being taught in overpriced workshops which doesn’t make sense considering all the information is available out there for free. We aim to remove this laziness in people and let them self discover and learn starting with free workshops all over India teaching the basics. Yes, completely free. We will also provide all standard workshop theory material online under an open license. If you are interested in getting one held at your institute/locality/organization you can mail us at contact [at] 9circuits [dot] com.
This is our roadmap for now. Follow our progress through this blog or one of the social networking methods. We wish our best to all folks out there in open hardware!
This is the thing i was really waiting for..this is a very good idea..i would like to thank to 9circuits.
Hi 9circuits
It’s great idea of your
Waiting for content and begin my first robot
i feel that there are already atleast 20 companies doing the same stuff. what makes you guys different? Anyway. good that you are reselling arduinos, i have had a lot of fun prototyping with them
Hi Arul, Thanks for your interest and your comment. Actually, we never did claim to be doing anything different. Its just a description about our roadmap to those interested. Probably, some things that we are doing different are free workshops (which are also done by several organizations) and products that will fill the gaps in the market. Apart from that, our main aim is to enjoy the above process!
Well it is a nice initiative by 9 Circuits Team. Apart from the fact tht we face a problem of nonavailability of components, we are also looted. Some of the upcoming design makers in India today are
http://www.ngxtechnologies.com
http://www.entesla.com
http://www.nex-robotics.com
Well atleast they do something different. Hope 9circuits too does someday.
Thanks for your words of encouragement! We hope to launch ourselves into the race soon.
Hi
As guys as you said … when you work on some thing & you don’t get the required parts its really frustrating. I have gone through this … Honestly speaking great work 9 circuits..
My wishes .. Go ahead.
Hey 9circuits, need the big update c’mon.
I don’t want others online shop…….I want you
Thank you for your enthusiastic patronage, Mohit.
There have been a few production delays, but we should have something by month’s end. We would rather take our time and ensure a quality…..surprise.
Until then, please send us an e-mail at “contact(at)9circuits(dot)com” and we will try to help you in any way we can.