How to Protect Yourself While Bringing Your Product to Market

In this article I’ll show you how to protect yourself from common scams, and from being ripped off in general, while bringing your product to market. ... read more

12 Requirements to Succeed with a Hardware Startup

Do you have what it takes to succeed with your new startup? Learn how to honestly assess your skills and determine your best outsourcing strategy. ... read more

Episode #28: Marketing Lessons Learned with Fraser Vaage, Founder of Snik

In this episode I speak with Fraser Vaage who is the founder of a hardware startup named Snik that is developing a new bicycle security device. ... read more

Episode #27: The Importance of Defining Project Milestones with Dave Millman of SalesDev.Global

In this episode learn how milestones can entice investors and make your project more manageable. ... read more

8 Tips to Ensure Your Hardware Startup Will Succeed

It’s a long journey to take a hardware product from idea to market. That journey becomes even longer, more stressful, and more expensive if you end up taking the wrong path. ... read more

How to Determine If Your New Hardware Product is Really a Good Idea

In this article I’m going to answer one of the most frequently asked questions I get from entrepreneurs  – is my product idea a good one? ... read more

The Biggest Barriers Every Hardware Startup Must Surpass

There are countless barriers that you will need to surpass in order to bring a new physical product to market. This is especially true for an electronic hardware product. ... read more

Introduction to Switch Mode Power Supply Design

This article provides an easily understandable approach to explaining how a switch-mode, buck or boost, power supply operates. ... read more

Episode #26: How to Define and Specify Your New Hardware Product

In this episode of the Predictable Designs Podcast I’m sharing another one of the lessons from a course in the Hardware Academy. The topic of today’s lesson is how to properly define and specify your product. ... read more

Episode #25: How to Validate Your Product Idea Before You Spend Serious Money On It

In this episode of the Predictable Designs podcast I’m going to share with you various ways to validate your product idea before you begin spending serious money to develop and prototype it. ... read more

Episode #24 – Supply Chains and Manufacturing with Charles Lin of TechDesign

In this episode of the Predictable Designs Podcast I speak with Charles Lin of TechDesign where we discuss supply chains and manufacturing in Asia. ... read more

Episode #23 – From Corporate World to Freelancing to Running a Hardware Startup with Roberto Weiser of Developpa

In this episode of the Predictable Designs Podcast I speak with Roberto Weiser of Developpa about how he left his life in a cubicle to became a full-time freelance engineer. ... read more

Introduction to Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) for Use in Embedded Systems

Discover how and when to use Real Time Operating Systems (RTOs) in your own tech product. This tutorial will cover all the basics and how to use an RTOS in embedded systems based on microcontrollers. ... read more

Episode #22 – Hard Earned Lessons Learned with Wayne Frick of ChirpSounds – Part 2

In my podcast today I speak again with hardware entrepreneur Wayne Frick of ChirpSounds. I’ve worked with Wayne for a couple of years now and he was also one of the first members in the Hardware Academy. ... read more

Why You Need to Stop Over-Focusing on Your Product

It all starts with an idea. Many hardware entrepreneurs then spend months (or even years) specifying and mentally analyzing their product. ... read more

Episode #21 – Hard Earned Lessons Learned with Wayne Frick of ChirpSounds – Part 1

In my podcast today I speak with hardware entrepreneur Wayne Frick of ChirpSounds. I’ve worked with Wayne for a couple of years now and he was also one of the first members in the Hardware Academy. ... read more

The Key Elements of a Business Plan for Hardware Startups

As an advisor to new hardware entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that a business plan is no longer required to find an investor, if your idea is good enough. ... read more

ATmega versus STM32: Which Microcontroller is Best for Your Application

This article compares the ATmega and STM32 microcontrollers so that you can choose the best one for your own tech product, by considering overall cost and system cost, as well as the upward migration path. ... read more

Episode #20 – 6 Facts About Product Development That Hardware Startups Underestimate with Dave Millman of SalesDev.Global

In this episode I speak with Dave Millman of SalesDev.Global about some of the various aspects of bringing a new hardware product to market that are most commonly underestimated by hardware startups.

Dave has decades of experience helping hardware startups … read more

Why You Must Simplify Your New Product Idea to Succeed

I want to discuss something that I’ve come to realize is one of the most important early steps that a hardware entrepreneur can take. That step is to simplify your product without compromising on the key features that your customers require. ... read more