What I want to do
Become the RaspberryPi of open-source ultrasound hardware
What I have
- Been selling hardware since 2017: know-how in terms of design, prototyping, review, production, sales
- Two existing board designs and corresponding python libs
- Documentation, along with an exhaustive research log
- Existing users - and access to ultrasound research labs, as well as ultrasound startups (~50+ users, including ~10 academic labs, ~10 startups, ~10 SMEs)
- An ecosystem (academics, private, researchers, students, suppliers, …)
- A series of published articles on open-ultrasound
- A collection of old (mostly) mechanical probes
- Knowledge of the FPGA toolchain and its key actors
What I am looking for
- Grow: Have more users, and enlarge the users/contributors community (documentation, hardware, software), diversify the FPGA contributors base
- Learn: Improve users feedback
- Work together: Partners to improve the design and documentation, with ad-hoc technical support (HV!)
- Coconstruct: People developing their own ultrasound research platform
- Suppliers: diversify PCBA and piezo suppliers
- Innovate: Explore more complex (still within open-tool chain) FPGAs, build on single element hardware to start 8-elements arrays
- Share: Improve a library of fpga signal processing toolss