Vegas or Silicon Valley?
Hidden in Las Vegas - the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. The building makes your brain pump iron. I may like it here – but Silicon Valley is in…
16 Scenarios that I am Trying to Avoid
Until spring arrives, and I head back west, I have a lot of gaps to fill before I launch a product. Working for a living was so damn easy –…
Retire? You have to be *ucking kidding!
So back in the days, not sure when, the retirement age was set at 65. Why? Because the average American male’s life span was 61! Not so today! Time to…
Simplicity One Chair Legs – too Whimpy
Ha – the two wood-gods that monitor here will chuckle (or cringe) when they see this photo. Modeling in Autodesk Inventor has its limits – a real prototype has its…
Simplicity One Chair Prototype
We are using Oak for the Prototype Legs - with White Ash, Cherry, Walnut and Mahogany Options Later Since my client, Mooney International, shut down its California site, we are…
Poor Man’s Tooling
If you are going to process a carbon fiber part, the optimum approach is to have a mold machined from a very expensive Invar, a metal alloy that has a…
Enter the X-Carve
The X-Carve Assembled and Working after a Two-Week Learning Curve A few months ago we purchased a 2D CNC Die Cutter called the Silver Bullet. Our intended use was to…