http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4 making your ideas real.... Sat, 27 Dec 2008 17:25:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en MAKE: Blog: Open source hardware 2008 - The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2008 This is pretty cool, albeit the organization of the projects is a little hard to navigate. In time, its likely to become a pretty amazing resource.  In looking at a number of the projects, ... http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4/2008/12/27/make-blog-open-source-hardware-2008-the-definitive-guide-to-open-source-hardware-projects-in-2008/ Conversation Agent: The Light Before the Storm Indeed, and I think many see the positives of building a community as a way to boost revenue, and are rather happy go lucky on the potential downsides. Its not for the faint of heart, and it does take full blown commitment, as stuff ... http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4/2008/11/12/community-building-when-bad-stuff-happens/ Over at Influential Marketing Blog, Rohit Bhargava presents 6 reasons why virtual events are becoming more popular. A couple I take issue with, but the rest are right on the mark. His first reason is budgetary, and he is right on the mark with that, although I think the situation is ... http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4/2008/10/30/virtual-events-and-conferences/ Below is the old intro... looks like I blew it in a huge way LOL, good thing I am out of it :) Todays will likely be a wild ride for the stock market. I told my wife to expect the Dow to drop 840 at some point, albeit it is ... http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4/2008/10/30/its-not-all-doom-and-gloom/ I got an email from the Andy at commentluv this morning, and they are having a contest, but also will be opening up ad space, and that got me thinking... and then thinking some more. There seems to be a growing trend toward the 125x125 pixel ads, and I thought cool, ... http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4/2008/10/20/graphical-display-ads-plumbers-with-leaking-pipes-at-home/ Gosh, it seems there are a ton of new wordpress themes, many incredibly cool to look at... at least initially. And then sure enough, testing across screen resolutions, browsers, and different functions they crash. Then add in, it seems more and more folks are encrypting parts of the themes. I ... http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4/2008/10/13/why-do-so-many-wordpress-themes-tank/ As part of asthma management, record keeping plays a major role. Yet, compliance with such is often times not all that good in the short term, and for the long term, likely non-existant. Part of the issue is the need to manually write down readings from a peak flow device, ... http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4/2008/10/12/peak-flow-measurement-via-iphone-or-android-asthma-management/ The first android phones started rolling out on the T-Mobile system not too long ago, perhaps more widely knowm as the google phone. Android is the operating system the T-Mobile G1 runs under, and its almost open source, thus why I refer to such as android phones. Whats cool, is the ... http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4/2008/10/03/the-ultimate-pedometer-and-its-free-sort-of/ Brian has a way cool idea here, and its one with pretty low impact to business operations.. sort of a win win all around. Peak demand is indeed a killer, but even apart from peek demand, continuous demand at the wrong time of day can get pretty spendy... and it ... http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4/2008/09/06/intercontinental-demand-load-balancing/ In the last few years, we had laptop batteries, cell phone batteries, drill batteries, and now perhaps even the ipod.... Japan Warns Of iPod Fire Risks - Podcasting News. There really is no rocket science to designing LiIon protection circuitry, nor manufacturing such... but the risk of botching it is significant, thus ... http://inventorsgarage.com/blog4/2008/09/01/whats-up-with-folks-inability-to-designmanufacturer-liion-batteries-which-dont-blow/