You fill out their Contact Us form You pitch the sales/CEO guy on your idea They’ve heard something like this before You need help They will help you for money They engage their engineering team The engineering team is like: “we’ve got some tools to do that from the last project but also we are all scarred from how bad that project went” You review and sign legal paper work…
It’s unclear how AI makes its way into the electronics and PCB world. There are a lot of players getting into the space and a lot of skeptical electrical engineers wait to see how it all plays out. This post is a brief overview of each company on my watch list. I might follow up with demos of each one later.
There are a few approaches being taken, design with code 💻, chat with design…
Why? I’ve decided I need some more thoughtfulness around business ideas. Here are some videos that constitute my business schooling:
Finding Value Proposition 2023
Harvard Innovation Lab
Michael Skok (Underscore VC, Startup Secrets)
Additional material: https://startupsecretssandbox.com
Notes:
Problem format: target customer is dissatisfied with current situation due…
Backstory In 2021 my sister and brother-in-law launched an NFT project called Fly Frogs1. He did the art, she wrote the code. I was working at an engineering consultancy called Very at the time doing electrical engineering and product development for clients that either had an idea they wanted to turn into a product OR to rescue them from their previous consultancy that promised they could do the…
senior design 2015
This project is a network of wireless heart rate monitors to be used in ad-hoc recovery rooms following disaster scenarios. The wireless monitors, or nodes, are placed on patients and determine their heart rate using photoplethysmography. The data sent from each node is viewed on a nearby laptop where medical personnel can monitor patients and be alerted of any abnormal…
summer 2014
This is an underwater rover that was developed at Lockheed Martin as a prototype for the Engineering Explorers Post program.
The rover is propelled by 3 bilge pumps, 2 on the sides for forward jetting and 1 mounted underneath with a propellor for up and down movement. An Arduino Pro Mini receives serial commands through an XBee radio which floats on top of the water in a…
summer 2013
This is a WiFi enabled three-phase power quality monitor. The device uses an Arudino MEGA as its brains, a MAXQ3183 power meter IC to read power quality data, and a WiFly Shield for communication. Two devices are currently installed at the University of Rochester and collecting data which can be viewed here.
This project was funded by the Xerox Corporation and the STEP of the…
2011
Installed on University of Rochester’s SAE Baja Team for 2012 competition.
The Arudino Fio is used in this project to sample analog data signals and send them wirelessly using a pair of Xbee modules. All data is displayed on the dashboard using analog electronics and in realtime on a nearby computer that is running the display program.
2010
A high powered, RGB LED powered by a LED driver based on dan’s Instructable and an Arduino microcontroller.
The LED module connects to the controller through a USB connector and the controller is powered by a 5 volt power supply. After powering on the device, a push button on the top of the controller allows the user to cycle through a series of colors that are embedded in the code.
2008-2011
Electric car conversion of a VW Jetta. Goes about 25 miles/charge with a top speed of 55mph. The car was dismantled in 2011 after having multiple mechanical issues.