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Archive/Business Ideas/Engineering Consultancy

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+# Characters
+> It's important to understand who your customer is. The more niche you can be the better. Drawing the person is best.
+
+### Character bio 1 - "James"
+
+### Character bio 2 - "Jill"
+
+### Character bio 3 - "John"
+
+
+# Value Proposition
+
+# Cost Structure
+
+
+
+# Key Resources
+> Nothing exists in a vacuum. List potential and necessary ones.
+
+## Capital
+
+## Partnerships

Archive/Business Ideas/Engineering Consultancy.md

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+# Characters
+> It's important to understand who your customer is. The more niche you can be the better. Drawing the person is best.
+
+###  John 
+John is the founder of a startup that develops wearable health technology. His company is focused on creating innovative wearable devices that can monitor and improve people's health. John needs a mechanical engineer with expertise in embedded electronics and programming to help him develop and prototype his devices. Specifically, he needs someone who can design and build custom sensors, as well as program microcontrollers and write firmware for his devices.
+> Integrating into consumer-grade devices is not something I have experience or expertise in. This is NOT my forte.
+> I wonder if this is the sort of thing that working with Helix could help me develop further (or, get an interview with them, and find out!)
+
+### Maria
+Maria is the owner of a small manufacturing company that produces custom metal parts for various industries. She needs a mechanical engineer who can help her optimize her production line and increase efficiency. Specifically, she needs someone who can design and build custom machines and tools for her production line, as well as develop automation systems to streamline her manufacturing process.
+> This IS something I can do. It would benefit me greatly to be more proficient with 5S, or lean six-sigma techniques to do this.
+> I wonder if this is the sort of thing that working at Getinge could help me develop further.
+> Other manufacturing opportunities could help develop this further. Really getting close to the manufacturing side of things.
+
+### David
+David is a researcher at a university who is working on a project to develop a custom experimental setup for studying the behavior of materials under extreme conditions. He needs a mechanical engineer who can design and build custom components for his setup, as well as program microcontrollers to control and monitor the experimental parameters. Specifically, he needs someone who can design and build high-precision measurement systems, as well as develop custom control algorithms for his experimental setup.
+> All about it. There's stuff I'd have to learn as I go along but this is stuff I've DONE BEFORE.
+
+# Portfolio of projects
+## C2 Robot Arm
+## Oasis manifold redesign
+## C7 Robot Arm, Bag Feeding
+## Caspian filter test rig
+## Cam Actuated Valve thing for Neo
+## Proteus rig
+## Proteus concepts
+## Delivering Mobily RV
+## Kiwi Trilateration rig
+
+## Beanbag Chair
+
+
+
+# Value Proposition
+
+I design and build one-off bespoke mechatronic systems to solve your tough challenges.
+Top-notch mechanical design, programming, and fabrication all in one stop, saving you time and money.
+
+# Pricing Structure
+
+I want to doe value-based billing, primarially. This is a very bespoke business.
+[ ] Research this more to find out what this really looks like.
+
+# Key Resources
+> Nothing exists in a vacuum. List potential and necessary ones.
+
+## Capital
+- OnShape $1500/yr
+- Fusion  $720/yr
+- Better Windows PC $2500
+
+## Partnerships
+- Helix
+- Raven
+- Peter Boyle 603-490-3144

Archive/Business Ideas/EveryCalc.md

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+# Business Model
+Few sentences:
+
+> I provide a few calculators that do basic engineering calculators for free. They can pay to buy more sophisticated calculators. They're self-contained HTML files; they own everything.
+
+# The Beam Tool is a Killer App and a good one to start with.
+It has some problems, though.
+- [ ] Bugginess with plotting
+- [ ] Section input can be a bit confusing (it also doesn't work in portable)
+	- [ ] Could this be solved by going to inline svg/dxf?? Can I compute MOIs from DXFs?
+		- [ ] https://acube.xyz/private/section.php
+	- [ ] channels and t-slot profiles would also be great add-ons
+- [ ] An option to do torsion would be useful
+
+# Some of these calculators are memes.
+- Pitchers - wtf is going on here
+- Trajectory - ehhhh
+- Rocker pod - wtf who cares
+- Transmission strength - this is a CLUNKY BOY
+- 1d cut opt - wtf is this even
+
+# Some are good loss-leaders
+- orings
+- iso fit
+- belt sizing
+- a bolt torque one would be good
+- 

Archive/Business Ideas/Farm Innovation Ideas.md

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+### Watering solutions
+- Solar-powered heater
+	- Inverse coffee percolator
+	- https://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/WaterHeating/SteveTank/SteveTank.htm
+	- http://www.the7msnranch.com/2010/12/solar-heated-water-trough-product.html
+- Fence-powered heater
+	- Run fence at 120v straight off the line
+	- Run fence at a constant, elevated voltage
+	> 1e-7 ohm-meters of resistance for steel, 
+	> 3mm steel diameter
+	> R = rho x L/A
+	> `1e-7 ohm-meters * 1 mile / (pi/4*(3mm)^2) = 22.77 ohms`
+	> a drop cord is like... half an ohm
+	> you would need to step up the voltage to nearly 10kv to get equivalent power
+	> running a line at a constant 10kv doesn't sound smart. chargers pulse for a reason
+
+- Super-insulated bucket, pride of the farm - MBH5B - https://www.ruralking.com/brower-manufacturing-insulated-bucket-holder-blue-mbh5b
+
+### Improved fencing grazing solutions
+- Adapting the GPS-style collars
+	- Put a base station out and use some sort of radio time-of-flight
+	- Put a base station out, use wifi or something to comm, but still rely on GPS
+	- Use dog fence wire. Just lay it out on the ground, no need to worry about fence staying taut
+- Temporary high-tensile wire to do alley grazing;
+	- How tight can polywire go? around 180lb - density is 3.1lb / 1320 ft = .0023 lb/ft
+	- High-tensile wire is 1500 lb - 99lb / 4000 ft = .024 lb/ft (10x heavier, 10x stronger)
+	- close enough formula: `T = W*L/4/H = w*L^2/4/H` ; so a T/w ratio is constant;
+		- .3 in: `T = .0023 * 30*30/4/.025 = 20 lb` 
+	- Put up panels rather than stringing wire to prevent movement 
+	- Use a tractor as a back-fence rather than as the whole thing
+- Super simple tractor made of cattle panel
+	- Pallet back
+	- Trampoline top
+	- 
+- All-in-one automatic winch like Thomas Massie's https://www.instagram.com/repthomasmassie/reel/DCEvt4Ugi9y/
+	- 100lbf at 20ft / hr = .75 watts
+		- This is... so doable with a solar winch, at even tiny efficiencies
+		- 2000 lb winch pulls how many amps?
+- Wheeled chicken tractor, using feelers like you would with a corn head
+
+### Agronomic ideas
+- Pastured pigs
+- Interseed covers on corn
+- Strip cropping
+	- Sheep / cover crop grazing in corn
+	- Pumpkins in sweet corn
+	- Twin 60" corn with covers
+		- Micro-chicken tractor!!
+	- 
+- Nigel Palmer
+	- Extract waterhemp
+	- Extract corn / soybean seed

Archive/Business Ideas/Hughes Engineering.md

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+# Helping Existing Shops
+Reach out to:
+- Crutcher MFG
+- Cusey
+- White's Sales and Service
+- G3 Machining
+- Friedrichs
+- Hedrick
+
+
+Hello,
+
+My name is Thad. (We know each other because..?) I am a freelance engineer around Funks Grove and I am looking to take on more work. 
+
+- Here are my services
+- More time to chat?
+- Thanks
+# Helping Farmers
+
+Hi,
+
+- I'm Thad, from a farm around Funks Grove
+- I have been starting to do some freelance engineering work
+- What is my vision - why do I care about you - why am I not just working for The Man?
+- I'm reaching out to see if there are any pain points on your farm you think might benefit from some custom design - be that purely mechanical or with some electronics in the mix. Some little dream idea you'd want on your farm, but the big OEMs don't make, or doesn't fit into your operation. I'd love to chat and see if there's any way I could help you out.
+
+Hi, my name is Thaddeus. I'm from a farm in Funks Grove area. I moved back fairly recently and have been doing some freelance engineering work in the ag sphere. I enjoy solving unique and overlooked problems in simple and appropriate ways 
+
+I'm sure that running a less conventional operation than the row crops surrounding us, you face unique challenges beyond what 

Archive/Business Ideas/Machinae Ex Deo Podcast.md

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+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuYuzkGA3SI
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-osVNiP-ZX0
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwtUboov8zc

Archive/Business Ideas/The Rent-To-Own Housing Co-operative.md

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+# Motivation
+
+"Neither a borrower or lender be, but especially, do not be a lender."
+
+It is better to own than to rent. This is not a practical life-advice statement, but a recognition of reality. Rentership is actually a lesser good than ownership. Why is this? Because it is a separation of use from ownership.
+
+The renter finds himself a transient, never willing (or perhaps, even capable) to put in the effort to improve, maintain, and personalize (inculturate) that which he uses. The lender finds himself estranged, less willing to improve and maintain that which he owns beyond what he suspects he can get a financial reward for, and certainly will refuse to personalize it, as it will scare off tenants.
+
+At the same time, though, in our present economy, few have the capital to purchase property, and those who do, are given funds at a usurious rate, and often lack guidance from others on how to actually fix or maintain their house. Many people these days also lack the knowledge, tools, and community labor to make improvements or renovate property.
+
+This proposes a way for investors to truly invest in their community by turning more of their neighbors into owners rather than renters; in turn, creating a community in which people are invested and thus care about their surroundings. This form of investure, as it will be seen, requires a good deal of trust - and therefore, necessarially becomes a personal relationship rather than a mere transaction.
+
+# Abstract Solution
+
+The general scheme proposed is a sort of 'rent-to-own', coupled with a proper understanding that an investor should have personal involvement with this process.
+
+A moneyed investor, or set of investors, buy or build a house, or multiple houses. They seek out tenants, who pay for the property a month at a time. Their payment is demarcated in two pieces: a principal payment, which goes towards the value of the house itself, and a leasing fee*, which is paid to the investors. The investors, in return for this fee, are expected to provide guidance in how to maintain the property, assistance in rebuilding or improving the property, and mentorship in home-keeping in general. The intent is truly for the tenant to become a full owner, and so in his time as a tenant, to make all of the improvements and customizations (within reason) he sees fit.
+
+( * this leasing fee may be a fixed-rate, or more complex pending improvements being made to the property)
+
+If the tenant decides to vacate the property, he will receive the principal payments he made in full - but none of the leasing fees - and the property returns to full ownership of the investors. If the tenant succeeds in paying all principal payments back to the investors, he now owns the property in full. The principal, regained, may be paid back to the investors, or another property may be purchased, continuing the process. (There is an obvious temptation to construct a pyramid scheme here, by taking the principal payments and buying new property with them before the payments are made in full, but it must be avoided.)

Archive/Business Ideas/The Zine.md

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+## Mission
+To proclaim the Gospel as it applies to technological development to:
+- those of the faith who happen to be in engineering, who need guidance on how to have their work radically transformed by Jesus Christ
+- those not of the faith who see problems with technology in our society, so that their eyes may be opened to the Church's vision.
+... with a particular emphasis on the academic sphere where there is room for these ideas to be discussed and seep in.
+
+## How?
+A zine, featuring:
+1. Sections and tracts lifted from established authors, preferably those in full communion with the Church (Aquinas, Schumacher, etc.)
+2. Articles written expressly for the zine
+3. Stories from the field
+4. Artwork and diagrams (Ade Bethune's work comes to mind)
+
+## Related publications / movements
+- Catholic Worker Movement (tech and work go hand in hand)
+	- Tradistae
+	- New Polity
+- Schumacher Center for New Economics
+- Machinae Ex Deo
+- Full Stack Theology
+
+## Names
+- Tools and Theosis / Tools and Transcendence
+- Machinae Ex Deo
+- Full Stack Theology (CS-focus issue)
+- Created Things (there's already actually a podcast called this; it's artsy stuff)
+- Factor
+
+## Distribution
+- Find a devout catholic in the engineering school at various universities, print copies of the zine, set out on campus.
+	- Newman centers
+- Dr. Estrada / Dr. Hudson / Tom Rogge @ RHIT
+- Quarterly distribution (target first few weeks of a semester / quarter / trimester, before the overload of classes kicks in)

Archive/Business Ideas/Weather Log Concept 1.md

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+# Problem Statement
+Custom spray applicators and farmers need records of weather conditions, product, and time when fields are sprayed
+# Overall desires
+- Lightweight and low cruft
+- Works offline
+- Log this information:
+	- Time sprayed (time in and out for event)
+	- Field sprayed
+	- Product and rate
+	- Other notes
+	- Weather data (from NOAA API is fine: https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api)
+# Existing systems/problems
+- https://www.thecombineforum.com/threads/any-good-spraying-record-keeping-apps.197233/
+- https://www.spraydiary.net/pricing/ - $15 AUD /mo
+- https://www.myagreport.com/ - $250/yr
+- https://www.fulcrumapp.com/apps/spray-records/ - $468/yr
+- https://farmspraypro.com/ - $495 one-time
+- https://www.abcsoftware.com/solutions/abcspray/
+
+- Expensive
+- More cruft and validation than necessary
+# Data to be logged
+- Timestamp
+- Plain text notes
+	- Product & rate
+	- Field name
+- Current weather conditions
+# Data format
+Some options (multiple may be used, I suppose?)
+1. .csv format
+2. .xls format (one sheet per event?)
+3. JSON/YAML/TOML/HCL/XML format
+4. .pdf report
+5. keep everything in a sqlite3db and allow queries / reports on it
+# Data flow
+## Option 1 - .csv files over Android "share" functionality
+> Just attach the file with the android share functionality
+## Option 2 - automatically send reports over email
+> Use a passthrough email service, or hi-jack a user's email (email a file to yourself)
+## Option 3 - dropbox/webDAV/etc. integration
+> Automatically put reports into cloud storage

Archive/Business Ideas/Weather Log Concept.md

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+# Problem Statement
+Custom spray applicators and farmers need records of weather conditions, product, and time when fields are sprayed
+# Overall desires
+- Lightweight and low cruft
+- Works offline
+- Log this information:
+	- Time sprayed (time in and out for event)
+	- Field sprayed
+	- Product and rate
+	- Other notes
+	- Weather data (from NOAA API is fine: https://www.weather.gov/documentation/services-web-api)
+# Existing systems/problems
+- https://www.thecombineforum.com/threads/any-good-spraying-record-keeping-apps.197233/
+- https://www.spraydiary.net/pricing/ - $15 AUD /mo
+- https://www.myagreport.com/ - $250/yr
+- https://www.fulcrumapp.com/apps/spray-records/ - $468/yr
+- https://farmspraypro.com/ - $495 one-time
+- https://www.abcsoftware.com/solutions/abcspray/
+
+- Expensive
+- More cruft and validation than necessary
+# Data to be logged
+- Timestamp
+- Plain text notes
+	- Product & rate
+	- Field name
+- Current weather conditions
+# Data format
+Some options (multiple may be used, I suppose?)
+1. .csv format
+2. .xls format (one sheet per event?)
+3. JSON/YAML/TOML/HCL/XML format
+4. .pdf report
+5. keep everything in a sqlite3db and allow queries / reports on it
+# Data flow
+## Option 1 - .csv files over Android "share" functionality
+> Just attach the file with the android share functionality
+## Option 2 - automatically send reports over email
+> Use a passthrough email service, or hi-jack a user's email (email a file to yourself)
+## Option 3 - dropbox/webDAV/etc. integration
+> Automatically put reports into cloud storage

Archive/Business Ideas/metany.app.md

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+# Branding
+
+> metany.io / metany.app
+
+Realign and change your mind.
+
+# Characters
+> It's important to understand who your customer is. The more niche you can be the better. Drawing the person is best.
+
+### Jeff
+Jeff is an accountant who works remotely. He spends a lot of time in front of a computer screen, although he works at home. His boss isn't micromanaging, so he has the flexibility to install software on his computer and take billable breaks. He has heard of the Pomodoro method and has tried it periodically but it just hasn't stuck. He is a good typist (using his keyboard), and his handwriting skills have, admittedly, been on the decline. When he's not on the computer, he's generally active and outside.
+
+### Character bio 2 - "Jill"
+Jill is an executive at an ad agency. She spends a lot of her time in meetings so frequently is on her phone. She has a bit of an addiction to social media. Right now, Instagram is her biggest addiction. She likes being able to reach a lot of people, build a brand, and check up on all of her friends. She knows she should be more ordered in how she spends downtime, but it's so easy to just open up Instagram rather than anything else.
+
+### Character bio 3 - "John"
+John is a college student studying Electrical Engineering. He spends a lot of time on different devices so is often on his phone. He has an addiction to social media. Right now, Snapchat is his biggest addiction. He gets a sense of missing out if he isn't always checking it. He really enjoys talking about philosophy with his friends although they don't always get it. Sometimes he has great ideas that he wishes he could share.
+
+# Value Proposition
+
+For a one-time payment of $8 you get:
+1. Forced prompting on your phone to journal
+	- Prompted by a tunable algorithm; default is after 5 cumulative minutes using social media apps
+	- Pomodoro timer option
+	- Writing tool has tech that helps writing
+		- Stream-of-consciousness mode
+		- Time mode
+		- Randomly generated question
+
+And/or for $5/month ($50 yearly), you get:
+2. Ability to share journal entries amongst friends
+	- Default is private drafts / stored (have a confirmation for 'are you sure you want to share this?')
+	- Option to share to others directly
+3. Alternative media feed
+	- Low-stress interface; black-and-white; text only content from your peers
+	- No commenting or likes - only a button to DM someone (or text them?)
+	- Never any suggested content
+	- Stress-reducing feed
+		- 3 posts at a time?
+		- Chronological
+
+Other perks:
+1. Monochrome interface
+2. Customizable graphics / text
+3. (Obsidian integration?)
+4. AI-powered thought web generation for exploration and linking to past ideas over the course of many years
+5. AI-powered sentiment analysis and corresponding 'smart prompts'
+
+# Potential Problems and Threats
+- User engagement
+- Privacy (need to be clear how this is done)
+- Technical issues
+
+# Future opportunities
+- Goalsetting
+- Gratitude journaling / different prompts in different parts of the day
+- Explicitly catholic prompts (even speaking to different traditions)
+
+# Cost Structure
+
+- Server expenses (???)
+- Engineering expenses (???)
+
+# Key Resources
+> Nothing exists in a vacuum. List potential and necessary ones.
+- Hosting
+
+## Partnerships
+
+- Hallow (they might even be interested in buying this... I wonder if they're already cooking something like this up)
+- Schools (bulk buy)?

Archive/Business Ideas/template.md

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+# Characters
+> It's important to understand who your customer is. The more niche you can be the better. Drawing the person is best.
+
+### Character bio 1 - "James"
+
+### Character bio 2 - "Jill"
+
+### Character bio 3 - "John"
+
+
+# Value Proposition
+
+# Cost Structure
+
+
+
+# Key Resources
+> Nothing exists in a vacuum. List potential and necessary ones.
+
+## Capital
+
+## Partnerships