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The Cross Plane Is Here!

Posted: 09/03/2013 in Current Project, General News
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After nearly two years of planning, designing, building and rebuilding, The Cross Plane WVI (Wireless Video Interface) has made its debut on KickStarter!

For those of you who may not know, KickStarter is a “Crowed Funding” website which allows project creators to post projects such as ours to a mass market of potential customers and/or willing supporters.  Supporters are given the opportunity to see presentation videos of the project and read the project story and so forth to see if this is in fact a project they would like to fund.

What makes KickStarter unique though is that it is an “all or nothing” platform where the projects funding goal must be met, or no funds at all are transferred. This helps protect both the project host and those funding the project. Supports though, should the campaign be successful, are given rewards that based on their pledge amounts called “tiers”.   These are set by the project creator so for example in our project, $10 or more (up to the next tier) get’s you a Cross Plane Key Chain. Then if you pledge $50 or more you get a signed T-Shirt and Poster or things of that nature. It’s  a really neat set-up and one that has helped thousands of people bring their projects to life!

So please, check out the link (the big picture at the top will take you there) and give the page a look. If you like what you see and want to help bring this to the market, make a pledge and bring my dream into reality! We can’t do this without you and need your help!

“The Cross Plane” Has Been Leaked

Posted: 08/29/2013 in Current Project, General News
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With everything in place for the reveal, we decided it was time for The Cross Plane to surface! With almost two years into this project, I can’t describe how excited I am to see this live! Our prototypes work, and our videos to compliment the KickStarter are all ready to go.

With that said, we are just waiting on the approval from the KickStarter crew to bring this project main stream and see if we can soon make a go at producing these. These have been an exciting past couple of weeks and I can’t wait to see what this does once we let it go into the wild! Fingers crossed as we need every bit of luck we can get but things are looking good!

Wheels are in motion!

Posted: 07/28/2013 in General News
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Today marks the day that I leave my day job to actually pursue the chance to become a “self-made” man. I know the pic above isn’t much to look at, but it gives just a glimpse of what I’ve been working on for nearly two years now.

Ok, so here is the plan. For the next two weeks, I’m going to be getting all the ducks in a row for my trip down to my business partner’s location in Manchester, GA. This is where we will be making the final adjustments to the project, preparing it for the Internet release and putting our business plan into motion with it. We should hopefully be shooting a few videos that will not only showcase the product but also bring AGI (our new company name) to the general public as well.

As I mentioned before, I’m sorry for not updating more often but soon enough the curtain will rise on this show and we can get the party started. Soon my friends!

Ghost In The Machine

Posted: 05/09/2013 in General News
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Last month as most of you know I had a few visitors over to the house for what some have dubbed “Geek Fest”. Essentially that is what it was but regardless of that, one of the “Geeks” who attended was RIT student [Julian Hammerstein] or better known as [BETA].

He and [Mike Moffitt] had been in development of a new computer game called [Ghost In The Machine] which [BETA] had brought with him to the meet-up. I gotta say I was pretty impressed with how well and how smoothly it worked and the 8-bit sounds and music really kept with the nostalgic nature of the game play which apparently is extremely challenging, just like old games were.

So anyway, the two have started up a KickStarter to bring this game to a larger market via Steam (I think) so if you’ve got $5 bucks, back their project and get the game after the KS concludes. Hard to go wrong! Check out the video on the KS page with the big pic above will take you right too and get the full low down on the project!

Manual Pick & Place Machine Project

Posted: 04/29/2013 in Current Project, General News
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Last year I saw a really cool home-build machine that was used for mounting SMT components to PCBs. A small manual pick and place machine was cool at the time but I had no real use for it. But now with recent projects forcing me to use these tiny components, I really needed a better way and this popped into my mind as a cheap and pretty straight forward solution.

It’s just in the planning phase at the moment as I’m really only doing this with the spare time that I don’t have much of, but the concept is coming along nicely.

Check out the blog of the man who invented this neat little contraption and made it open source for everyone to make their own versions of it.

Meet-Up Interview From The Jace Hall Show

Posted: 04/20/2013 in General News
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Though admittedly, the week before last I really had no clue who or what the Jace Hall Show was, I found myself in a unique position to be interviewed by one of the staff writers about the meet-up last week. So, of course doing my home work, I found out that Jace Hall is actually a pretty heavy hitter and get’s to do some skits/shows with some pretty big celebrities!

But in any case, if you click the image up top and you’ll be taken to the article. It’s been one hell of a week, both full of personal success and horrible tragedies to the country as a whole and it does put a lot of this into perspective.

So, hope you enjoy and there will be some other announcements in the near future regarding my latest projects! Have a good day!

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