More than 67% of Americans admitted to not being very happy in a Harris Interactive survey conducted in 2013. Couple this with an average of five hours of TV-watching every day and we wonder why people say we are a society of escapists. We are trying...
Workday, Inc. recently announced the launch of its investment fund, Workday Ventures, where it hopes to collaborate with machine-learning start ups to enhance its own products. It predicts big data will be instrumental to the success of all companies...
I wanted to delve into some of what it took to make a technology Kickstarter, so that others can be better prepared when they try to make one. My Kickstarter is for the PiSoC, an open source electronics development platform. It is designed to be easy...
Start-ups securing major venture capital for faulty valuations and concepts in April 2015. Mid-April proved to be a lucrative time for investors and security tech start-ups who secured massive investment from venture capitalists and from floatin...
According to YouGov Profiles, these are a few of the things that interest electronic engineers. However, it is a relatively small sample size of 420 people. But, it got us thinking… What does the average engineer like? Does su...
@DAB mentioned on my research post earlier in the series not to forget the costs of marketing, shipping and handling. These were not things I knew much about so I've done some more investigation. as I've been busy with the Enchanted Objects Design Ch...
Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack. (via linkedin.com) “No one's ever written a book called ‘Women In Tech.’ That's a huge oversight that I'm going to fix.” Tarah Wheeler Van Vlack writes these words on her new Kickstarter page called “Women In Tech: ...
Looking from the view of a packed office, it may seem that having a private consulting business with a private lab would be paradise. Nobody to walk up and bother you when under the gun. Nobody to use the communal toaster oven to heat up stinky lefto...
Anyone in a professional field feels that their station is deserving of a vacation or two each year. Even new hires at most companies are allocated a week off. However, this conviction begins to wane when working with non-salaried positions. Thanks t...
This is Micah Elizabeth Scott. Micah previously had a career in the software industry, and now has a second career in art. Micah's work focuses on applying new media techniques with a careful eye to the details of how the underlying technologi...
If I had to pick one root cause for all of mankind’s problems, it would be errors in perception. Measuring, assessing, and gathering data is well within our ability. However selecting what should be measured and interpreting the data to drive higher-...
This is Louis Beaudoin, owner of Pixelmatix, a New York based company. Pixelmatix sells controllers and LED matrixes to the DIY and early adopter market.SK: Where are you located? LB: I’m working out of my apartment in Manhattan SK: I remem...
Disclaimer: I’m an engineer, not a pro film maker. Be advised.www.youtube.com/watchI took a tour on the Inventables HQ and talk with founder Zach Kaplan about Easel and the future of CNC machining. It is a long video. Zach walks me through Easel in t...
At first blush, consulting seems like a ‘work-for-money’ trade. But clients don’t care about the work; they are only interested in the work product. The design, service, or patent that makes up the intellectual property (IP) resulting from an enginee...
Following the RoadTest of the CapSense MBR3 Evaluation kit, I thought about creating a simple cursor board with 4 direction buttons and a select button with an I2C interface to a microcontroller host.Before embarking on any venture, I like to do a bi...
Garrett Mace is an electrical engineer and electronics enthusiast located in Pullman, Washington. His startup company, macetech LLC, began as a part-time hobby in 2008 and recently with his co-founder Jason Moungey made the leap to a full-time busine...
Google’s Drive for Education will give students unlimited storage for free (via Google)What’s better than having unlimited storage in Google’s Drive cloud service? How about making it free! Yep, that’s the idea behind Google’s new Drive for Educatio...
Everyone loves to talk about the painter who did some work for Facebook and took payment in the form of company stock, which was worth hundreds of millions 7 years later at the company’s IPO. Especially potential clients that are trying to negotiate ...
Early in my consultancy, I was eager to please. First clients aren't easy to find! But this particular client was working on a new microcontroller implementation of an existing product. It started as a simple way to control the system, but as opportu...
This is James (Laen) Neal, owner and operator of OSH Park, home of the purple boards. OSH Park makes prototype quantity printed circuit boards, targeted for inventors and makers and at-home engineers who don't want to etch themselves but want to ...
I was recently working on a project where the goal was to control a rocket's altitude and recovery system. The basic goal was to have an altimeter to know at what altitude the rocket was at in order to deploy the drag chute and then at an acceptable ...
When I was a co-op student a number of years ago I was tasked with automating device testing for a specific company. The testing that was in need of automation was taking up valuable hours each day. One unit could easily take 2 hours a day for its fi...
www.youtube.com/watchI design electronics for the money. Yes, I love the work, have gotten quite good at it, and believe it is my God-given purpose on this Earth. But I don't kid myself; if cash from electronics stops flowing I'm going to find anothe...
