The TouchFire Chronicles: The Year Of Bad Prototypes (crunchgear?)
_**Editor’s Note:** This week we’re running a three part series by Steven
Isaac, a programmer with an amazing resume including stints at Sun, Microsoft,
and even a hardware start-up that brought the first (non-portable) tablets.
For years he’s dreamed of an easy-to-use device with a full keyboard that
slides out when needed and, together with a designer, he built the Touchfire,
a fully funded Kickstarter project that has only 10 days to go before
production begins. We asked him to create a series of short posts about his
experience with the Kickstarter process and offer you, the hardware hackers
out there, some advice and best practices. Read part one here. The entire
series will appear here._ I knew what I wanted – a soft, rollable keyboard for
tablets – but I didn’t have an inkling how to get my keyboard idea made.
That’s when I met Brad. Brad is both a mechanical engineer and an industrial
designer, a rare but extremely useful combination. He started his career at
HP, and then went to the legendary design firm IDEO. In a strange twist of
fate, Brad had done the mechanical design of the EO tablet …
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