Are you done with product development when you have a completed design?

Many people and companies assume that when a product is designed and engineered that the product development process is complete.  That is most certainly not the case for physical assembled products – and not expecting this fact can be very frustrating for the inventor and start-up. The product development process continues with production tooling through [...]

Cheap Prototypes – Materials

A large part of duck tape prototyping is doing it for cheap. This could mean $20, $200 or even more… but it is still a lot cheaper than a professional prototype. The cost of duck tape prototypes is mostly materials. There is no expensive CAD, engineering or design to be done, only [...]

Duck Tape Prototypes

Lets go over some basics about prototyping starting with “duck tape prototypes”. Duck tape prototypes are the very first physical representations of your idea. This phase can be filled with lots of satisfaction for optimists and visionaries or disappointment for the pessimists and short sighted.

Duck tape prototypes are made from available [...]

Two CAD Hints For Inventors

As we are beginning the CAD work for a new product today, I thought I would relay two important insight that are often missed by first timers.  Moving from 2-D to 3-D can be strenuous, so here is some help.

1.  Often 2-D drawings don’t account for requirements like board size, hand size, etc.  It might [...]

The Stack Master, Part 4

The Stack Master development story continues with Industrial Design, Product Design, Virtual Testing, Prototyping, Prototype Testing and Prototype Redesigns (we like to call them enhancements). If you are new to the story, check out our past posts:

Development Project Introduction

New Product Research

Feasibility Analysis, Customer Needs and Design Tools

You will be caught up quickly and [...]