With the online shop opening for the M!nder bike alarm, I’ve had the joyous duty to dig into the world of sales tax for e-commerce! In brief, if a customer in Florida makes a purchase, which taxes, if any, am I to charge he/she/per? And how would I remit the collected taxes to the corresponding […]
No CPU stock, so a different CPU must be found and ported-to.
The worldwide supply crisis has resulted in a shortage of electronic components. While this has impacted large vendors more than it could me, it never the less has caused obstacles. The electronics of Minder1 have to be assembled onto a PCB, which is a distillation of the circuitry onto a small plate. This is done […]
One of the unforeseen consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic is the rise in, and the volatility of, the prices of integrated circuit (IC) chips made in China. ICs that were often less than a dollar, are now several dollars; a CPU that used to be $2 is now $15, affecting the base cost of the […]
Unknown to the general public is that, 1.5 years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a supply crisis. Large, Western firms–and presumably others, elsewhere–have trouble getting supplies from China. The ostensible Factory to the World cannot provide, thus becoming the bottle neck to consumption. In brief, shipping containers are at Los Angeles’ […]
Fittingly, the first non-perfunctory post on this blog should be about the journey to this point. But, it will take as many pages to write as it took years to get to here.Therefore, I will post intermittently, hopefully completing the picture over time. Back in June 2016, my latest idea for a product arose. I […]
