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Intro to Sketching for Engineers
Turn your ideas into clear, confident sketches—no art experience needed. Learn simple techniques that help you think visually, communicate faster, and bring concepts to life with ease.
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Sneak up on success
Prototypes can reduce risk for later investments, in Time or Money.
Mini M&M's
Have you considered changing an existing idea/invention in simple way to make a whole new experience?
LeapPad- cost savings and clever engineering
I was watching my son play with a LeapPad toy book. It had a sensing pen to teach colors, letters, numbers, etc by tracing them in a...
R&D Q’s: How will I monetize my idea?
Monetizing an invention should be primary decision when deciding whether an invention idea has merit.
R&D Q’s: How do I plan to test my idea:
Design prototypes to satisfy testing strategy. Plan your tests first. Build only what is needed to pass the test. Then plan your next tests
Questions for product development planning ? ? ?
Product development is a long, complicated road.
Think differently: increase speed, reduce cost
Want to get your product to the market faster?
"No such thing as a 6-seater Tundra" ... now that just ain't so
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.”
Napkin sketch brainstorming
The only way to find good ideas is to have a lot of bad ideas.
5 ways to reduce cost
Here are 5 quick ways to reduce cost (and increase profits) in your device: Reduce labor: Simplify assembly processes Introduce fixtures...
Mowing, Minor Leagues, and Molder Selection
In plastics engineering, we regularly run into molding vendors that are in different leagues. Find a molding vendor that fits your needs.
Spaghetti CAD
Inexperienced engineers can unintentionally create testing problems by creating unstable code. In software, they call this ‘spaghetti-code’
McDonalds effect: SLA parts can be too accurate...
Design your parts with your final production method in mind.
Teardown Research: or, the YouTube rabbit hole
Learn, learn, learn. Improve your product designs by emulating the experts.
Start small: lessons from a Transformers RC
Working at a small scale reduced the labor and material costs of my prototype.
Spend your development budget on prototypes, not labor
No amount of design and simulation will replace a prototype in your hands.
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