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iShovel: Early Stage Automated Robotic Snow Shovel Ever wonder what life would be like if you didn’t have to shovel your driveway? What If you didn’t have to pay someone to shovel your driveway? In the not so distant future, the iShovel may be coming to a store near you. This battery powered shoveling device [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Inventors, engineers and designers often become paralyzed by perfectionism. Getting your product just right has benefits, but also some real costs and evaluating them rationally instead of just constantly going back to the drawing board is important. To do this analysis an inventor needs to fully understand the costs of heading to market [...] 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 [...] If you have been following along, you have made a lot of progress on your idea. If not do a quick catch up, you will learn a lot and we will be on the same page: Concept Research Market Research This is where we often get clients so for some self promotion a list of our product development [...] Process Prototyping is a big part of what we do at Flashpoint Development and we believe several aspects are very important and we will share them with you. A prototype is built to test the overall or specific parts of a prototype. Develop a clear goal of what you would like the prototype to represent. Too [...] Flashpoint’s Managing Partner is presenting his paper “On the Use of Global Cost Modeling Early in New Product Development” this weekend at the IEEE International Engineering Management conference in Portugal. This paper outlines the changes in the new product development industry, discusses the effect of those changes in the new product development process and finally [...] Check out www.mfg.com. If you have a CAD file, you can post and within hours get bids from manufacturers worldwide. Very useful for finding suppliers and also cost modeling during the design phase.
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