So at the beginning of the year I was planing on documenting the projects I did in 2012, start posting on my website regularly and start hoping to generate a bit more traffic. The aim was to start making some boards and kits and staring a little Open Source Hardware electronics store. It’s not like I want to be the next adafruit, seed or SparkFun. But it would be nice to be the next Evil Mad Scientist, Dangerous Prototypes, Arachnid Labs or countless others in the community.

So now it’s September, What happened?

I got distracted. Basically I had a great product idea. Everything else stopped and I got very focused on the product for several months. I’m still working on it but not with the kind of focus I had in the early months. I’m not quite ready to put the idea out on the internet quite yet but I will say it’s a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) product with an iOS and in future Android app. I’m planing on doing the first batch of the product as a Kickstarter.

I know from my research that these projects always take far longer than you think. The thing is though you don’t really understand or believe that until it happens to you. So development on the product idea continues but I understand it’s going to take a while so other smaller projects are getting some attention.

One of the outcomes of the product project is that I’m tooling up the workshop for making surface mount boards, this is something i’ve been wanting to do for quite a while. I also keep having new ideas for boards and kits. So I’m hoping I’ll be able to get back to my original plan of starting up a little electronics shop and also having the product project idea moving along at the same time.

So next up some posts on the new gear in the workshop.