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 […]
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 […]
The current hassle is getting shipments from China. Not that I am ready to order the product’s entire components; it is only a sample, for now, but I need to prepare for a coming, large shipment as well. But that is not like ordering from a shop; delivery has to be handled by _yourself_! That […]
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 […]
