Interesting Links
Tools We Use, Free Resources
Sites for Inventors
- Entrepreneur.com - Product Development Archive
- Quirky.com - Evaluates Inventor Ideas
- AskMe Help Desk - Inventors and inventions section
- Innocentive - Inventor competitions
- National Inventor Fraud Center - Help for victims of fraud
Free Design Tools and Software
- Alibre - Free CAD Software
- Google SketchUp - Free modeling software
- EDrawings - Share CAD files cross-platform
- 3D CAD Content - CAD parts pre-made
Design and Development Blogs
- Inventright - Stephen Key's blog
- Inventor Spot - Cool new inventions, products and tech
- Inventing for the Rest of Us - Bryan Daigle's blog
- Gizmodo - A gadget blog
- Engadget - A gadget blog
- TechCrunch - A tech blog
Part Finders
- McMaster Carr - Over 465,000 products
- Global Spec - An engineering search engine
- ThomasNet - Industrial products and services
- Macrae's Blue Book - Industrial directory
- Digikey - Electronic components
- Mouser - Electronics components
Patents and Legal Information
- USPTO - US Patent and Trademark Office
- Patent2PDF - Patents in PDF form
- IP Watchdog - Intellectual property resources
Marketing Resources
- Survey Monkey - Free online surveys
- Zoomerang - Online surveys with analysis tools
- US Census - Demographics
