Intelligent Deterrence
Anything to do with product development, including productization, logistics, enclosures, promotion, logistics, business networking etc etc etc.
Most patents don’t make it to market. And they cost a lot! Not to mention work-arounds which circumvent patents in order to create a competing product. And successful products are not always the first of their kind. A fear for every inventor is that his/her/per innovation will be stolen; hence the rush to patents. But […]
Sunday 6 February 2022 The Supply Crisis caused numerous problems. The latest is a behavioural difference in a new piece of hardware that now needs to be catered to. Highly annoying at this late a stage! On the plus side, the enclosure is nearly ready. The metallic components have been prototyped, with some tests remaining. […]
Yeah, the enclosure has gone through more iterations. It’s a typical struggle for an electronics product: The struggles of engineering the hardware and software complete, then the impossibilities of the enclosure begin. The obstacle is capital: While you can work ‘on the side’ to finance the computer engineering, manufacturing of a physical object necessitates a […]
The M!nder logo has been finalized, and should be published in the next few days. Thanks to the efforts and creativity of the great Ko Kimura at No Shortscuts Studio, here in Vancouver. An outdoor test of one parking-scenario has been carried out, successfully. I’ll post a link to it here, if I don’t forget. […]
As with any product nowadays, naming is a much more complex undertaking than it was in the past. Checks have to be carried out for the domain name (especially .com), existing products or variants, groups and individuals on social networks, apps, trade-marks, patents, jurisdictions etc etc etc. And, while you’re developing the product, other claimants […]
Just a quick update. I’ve spent a lot of time on trying to find a local metal-shop that could help with the manufacturing of the enclosure. The main body of the latter _I_ will do, but the end discs are more problematic. Unfortunately, and to the best of my knowledge, they are typically made through […]
As outlined in some of the history of the Minder1 theft-deterrent for bicycles, the original hope was to mount the system inside the bicycle frame. Chief among the consequent problems was the difficulty of achieving loudness. The latter is determinative in the current (autumn 2021) size and mounting-point of the system. But it is not […]
With prices for off-the-shelf enclosures having risen, and supplies dwindling, I’ve had to consider making my own. Yet again! I’d started off by naively thinking of local, custom production. And the obligatory 3D-printing. Then, I ended up researching metal fabrication–even welding! The current focus is on sheet metal. All the going-around-in-circles eventually bore fruit: Riveting […]
As already outlined, my only recourse for an affordable enclosure for the product has been an off-the-shelf metal can. Simply, custom manufacturing would result in a cost of hundreds of dollars per enclosure, unless if I order ten(s) thousand of it! The product’s enclosure has to meet some basic requirements. It has to: And whatever […]
When an electronics circuit is validated on a bread-board, the next stage may be to build it on a padboard. For commercialization (i.e. to turn it into a mass-produced product), this is turned into a PCB. This is what you’d typically see in a product that has electronics within it. (There is also IC/chips fabrication, […]
