Last weeks post talked about generating ideas to tackle your challenge or solve your problem. That gave us a lot of ideas, most of which are probably crazy, impossible and beyond imagination. This week we’ll focus on filtering out the actual impossible ones and find the space between crazy and impossible, where the actual innovation […]
Innovation engineering – Be creative
One of the hardest and most effective ways to manage innovation is knowing when to stop managing. Trying to manage creativity is almost always detrimental to the process and end result. Last weeks blog talked about drafting the mission, a mostly analytical process. This week I’ll talk about the second step in the process, unleashing […]
Innovation engineering- Mission
Going to space, building a bridge, being a gamechanger, it all starts with drafting a mission. Whether you are a startup wanting to “Be the leader in tech CRM”, or you’re designing the next game changer. You will need to set the dot on the horizon you are working towards. To make sure the end […]
Innovation engineering 101
The question I get asked most as an innovator is “How do you manage the creative process without impeding true creativity?”. Innovation is perceived as divine inspiration only granted to the select few. I’m here to tell you innovation can be engineered, and I’ll tell you how. I will explain the method I use for […]
How to create inventors
There’s a shortage of skilled people in tech and this has been going on for a while. There aren’t enough young people interested in tech, and educations don’t match the needs of the fields they are educating for. I feel very strongly about this, so this is a post about initiatives I like, have contributed […]
Topology optimization or “How to let your computer design your products”
I’ve recently made the switch from Autodesk Inventor to Fusion 360 for all my CAD work. I couldn’t be happier about this, and one of the things I started playing with is topology optimization. Topology optimization is a method in which the computer creates an optimized design based on the forces and contact surfaces which […]
Find EARFCN for LTE IoT devices
Just a quick post today. I was helping some students mess around with an LTE IoT device (Pycom GPY in this case). This particular chip has an easy to follow tutorial found here. There’s two aspects that are important to get right for the device to establish a connection. First the cellular network band, and […]
How to get started with with 3D printing – Printers
You’ve started researching 3D printers and you see acronyms (sorry, initialisms) like FDM, FFF, SLA, SLM, PLA, ABS, PETG. FFS! What are you going to do with all those? Let this be your guide into the wonderful world of consumer 3D printing. The basics post in this series already briefly explained some of these terms. The […]
How to get started with 3D printing – basics
It seems that every news outlet lately has been talking about 3D printing in some way or another. 3D printing in itself may seem like a magical way of making products, so let me lift the veil. In this series of blog posts I will explain all the aspects of 3D printing needed to start […]