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Smile Direct Club is an honoree in the Core 77 Commercial Equipment Category
June 29, 2023
Designed by Ovyl. More information available here: https://designawards.core77.com/Commercial-Equipment/118332/Aligner-Force-Sensor-System
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Is Matter The One Smart Home Standard to Rule Them All?
July 18, 2022
IoT consumer products have exploded over the last decade but one thing we can all agree on is that the market is still very fragmented.
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The Engineer’s Guide To Matter
July 18, 2022
Still have questions about Matter? Sick of the BS marketing guide to Matter? Well, below you will find a detailed technical guide on Matter
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Ovyl is now a Nordic Design Partner
February 11, 2022
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What Caused the Global Chip Shortage (in under 3 minutes)
February 9, 2022
So what caused the global chip shortage? Luckily for hardware businesses, increased demand is a huge factor.
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One Simple Trick to Improve Your Firmware Module Logging
February 2, 2022
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What a Hardware Design Company is, Explained: The Two Types of Product Design
January 12, 2022
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Adding Unit Tests To Your Firmware Using Ceedling + GitHub Actions CI in Bluetooth Development
January 4, 2022
We'll show you exactly how we implemented unit testing in our simple CLI to a project for the Nordic NRF52840-DK bluetooth devkit.
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How to budget for Product Development
December 21, 2021
How much does it cost to develop a product? It honestly depends on a huge array of factors. In this post, we’ll discuss them all.
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How to build a prototype without a designer
October 28, 2021
Prototyping is not about creating a thing, it's about going through a process that helps you solve problems.
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Get a sense for your brand
October 21, 2021
Before you start designing your product, it's very helpful to have a good understanding of what your brand is really like.
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Bluetooth Development Like a Pro - Adding a Portable CLI to Your Firmware
October 7, 2021
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Draft your business plan and launch strategy
July 22, 2021
This doesn't have to be a 50 page document. Here are two great resources you can use to get started on the right foot.
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Look at Your Product Critically
June 7, 2021
This is one of the hardest things to for innovators to do. So how does one self-criticize without becoming too much of a critic?
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50 Custom Icons for Onshape
May 26, 2021
We're big fans of Onshape and write many of our own custom features. To spruce them up, we made this set of 50 custom icons for Onshape.
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7 Things You Should Do Before You Develop A Product (Series)
May 7, 2021
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Patent or Prototype: Which Comes First?
April 7, 2021
The dangers of getting a patent without doing any prototyping work, and how to balance those risks.
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Under-Developed Products are Bad. Over-Developed Products could be worse
March 2, 2021
Over-developing or under-developing can both sink your company. This is how we achieve ideal-development.
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Two-Day Build Part I: The Challenge
September 21, 2020
This is part 1 of a three-part series where we show how we designed and prototyped an IoT device in 2 days at the Nashville Maker Faire.
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Two-Day Build Part III: Prototype vs Product
September 21, 2020
This is part 3 in a three-part series where we show how we designed and prototyped an IoT device in 2 days at the Nashville Maker Faire.
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Rapid PPE Design: Part I
September 21, 2020
In the face of this pandemic we have joined the effort to develop an effective mask that can be made locally.
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Two-Day Build Part II: The Prototype
September 21, 2020
This is part 2 in a three-part series where we show how we designed and prototyped an IoT device in 2 days at the Nashville Maker Faire.
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Rapid PPE Design: Part II
September 21, 2020
We're following up on our mask development effort. Read about the updates we've made to our mask design and how you can get one.
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31 Advanced Sketch Tips and Tricks for Onshape
Creating sketches is fundamental to Onshape (and all 3D CAD), so to get great at Onshape, you have to be great at making sketches. In this
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When Brainstorming Goes Wrong
If you’re our client, we don’t need your solutions and we don’t want to brainstorm with you... so what should we do instead?
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