I'm George
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And I dedicated a decade of testing and trial and error to achieving this
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Startup education for novices
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Go on Dragons Den they said. I found a way to go to one of them directly. I asked Touker Suleyman at the Great British Business Show: "I've got this awesome wearable keyboard, what do I do?" In short he said: Sell to a big business.
To sell to big businesses the legal backing has to be very strong. I asked a lot of high status achievers and self made people about what to do over many years. I saw 50 startups and 48 of them die. The one that survived didn't necessarily even have a good product. The surviving innovations were "Gest" which was copied by a competitor "tapstrap". If you googled the name "gest" you'd think it still existed and you could buy one. Unfortunately not. It is dead, dead before it started. I see startups come and go all the time. |
I talked to Heart Centred Business by LG in depth and their verdict that my business was about technology rather than customer.
I started with myself as the first customer so I couldn't see it their way. And at this stage every piece of technology that needed to be solved is solved. And every question has been answered. Every resource has been priced or access gained. The only thing it needs now is more customers. It's taken since 2013 to get to the starting line in business through many directions and experiences. So many resources required, so much knowledge, awareness and strategy. |
Why don't you do a Kickstarter?
An established industry player like Google can easily pull off a kickstarter. They have the inside knowledge and they have pre-made war like efforts in fortifying the intellectual property with around half a million of investment available.
Meanwhile, Tapstrap was raising 26 Million and they measure the market at 300 Billion. Two middle aged experts dressed in sweaters from Silicon valley pulling on the strings of their network.
Meanwhile, Tapstrap was raising 26 Million and they measure the market at 300 Billion. Two middle aged experts dressed in sweaters from Silicon valley pulling on the strings of their network.
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Let's go back 10 years
In 2013 I became "part-time" bed bound with a back and neck injury that were not properly diagnosed.
A professional neck manipulation brought me from pain to crippled. After some time, may be about next 2 months later. I wake up. Everything hurts. I can't move. I'm just in agony. I could move my torso a bit. Long story short, I think it took me 3 hours to get out of bed and on to all 4s. My life as I knew it was over. I also lost where I lived and had to downsize, I lost most of my income and clients.
I got my monitor hung up above where I was having to lay down in an effort to reduce damage to me. I did everything I could to make digital work manageable from bed.
I got my monitor hung up above where I was having to lay down in an effort to reduce damage to me. I did everything I could to make digital work manageable from bed.
It actually worked. It was made of 40 pieces of a smashed up Play-station 2 controller. I made a mouse macro pad out of it, I could actually make websites with it.
I stuffed a keyboard into a mouse. It was the tightest fitment of anything that I had ever seen in my life. I then made what I needed with 3 modified keyboards that all had their own maps and a 32 button mouse of this crazy standing desk I made out of an old speaker and some draw slides.
Using a horrible bodge with HID macros I managed to put together a system that helped me get more work done quicker.
Early days just starting to understand the automation system I was about to get addicted to.
Very early code for the program. A little insight of what it's like to build these things.
The things I had before became insufficient. Everything was binned apart from a few items that survived. Nowhere to store anything, no strength to carry it all. I'm couch surfing for a year on a piece of mattress and few weeks and months at a time per place. This is when I made another attempt at a device of sorts.
It's just about playable, it looks more fun than it actually is. The product I have now works astronomically better than this example.
Driving around using my finger and a thumb. Just seeing if it worked and why it does and why it doesn't. I saw 100's of ways to refine the activity.
I went to the great British business show on crutches and the Olympian, I got inspired to slave away for absolutely months trying to make software to automate websites and to try to make a business.
I went to the great British business show on crutches and the Olympian, I got inspired to slave away for absolutely months trying to make software to automate websites and to try to make a business.
I failed to realise just how saturated that market was. So I pivoted to using this type of system for files and microchip programming as it solved a more important problem.
Just for fun, I combined voice activation but my website building program.
Long story short I'm still crippled but out of bed and now in a homeless hostel. I've managed to borrow a shed from KentCycles.uk and set it up to make prototypes in.
Long story short I'm still crippled but out of bed and now in a homeless hostel. I've managed to borrow a shed from KentCycles.uk and set it up to make prototypes in.
In search for ways to clean up signals, cheap filtration and simplicity: LDR to LED actually offers some pretty cool possibilities for not very much cost.
This version was never finished and is still sitting around. The time-lapse camera used is another project I made.
4 - 8ms latency
In a bed, comfortably using a prototype to drive crazy speeds.
In a bed, comfortably using a prototype to drive crazy speeds.
Just a rough idea of what's happening in the chip, these are downloadable things in the future.
I was absolutely sidebar mad that day. I thought I would use sidebars to launch different automations and macros,
Making mirror images with macro loops for an art project. This is also a good way to begin to understand programming.
The registry is another thing we can modify.
I started to do ok. I did a tonne of hyperbaric (oxygen under pressure) therapy, osteopathy and swimming and it was getting me somewhere health wise. So the first thing I did was racetrack.
I started to do ok. I did a tonne of hyperbaric (oxygen under pressure) therapy, osteopathy and swimming and it was getting me somewhere health wise. So the first thing I did was racetrack.
Having played with GTA and controller it was time to do some track driving.
Few months go by and covid hits. Time to get prototypes done. Not much in the way at last.
Covid gave me a chance to make really promising prototypes, this turned into 100+ of prototypes and I kept modifying them and combining them.
Over the years of injury life I found the best physios and osteopaths and I made a point to to confirm that my design could not cause injury with them.
