Skyaak 'Deuce' early prototype shows detail of nose w 3 paper-clips doing double duty as both fasteners and ballast. "Appropriate-Scale Technology" at it's best!
It always amazes and delights me when a high-power professional designer/product developer expresses an interest in my Skyaak project and its R&D. Fred Schechter is a prime example of someone who knows the R&D business inside out and is a person who is expressing a very lively interest in the Skyaak project.
That is so cool!
I have always thought that the only way we are going to see the R&D progress successfully is to attract fellow professional developers into a 'Dream Team' working environment where everyone has equal opportunity to benefit as a result of their input and level of involvement.
Well, Mr, Schechter is a wonderful example of this philosophy in action, as we are working away behind the scenes as you are reading this post on creating a very cool new concept: providing an on-demand .pdf down-load that will give you a printer-friendly template so you can build your very own working model Skyaak 'Deuce' .
Check out Fred's musings here as a product developer and package designer out of Oakland, CA. But don't take my word for it. Check out what self-proclaimed "Investigative Designer" David Seah has to say about this guy. Here's a taste of David's latest blog entry to set the scene:
I had a long coffee meeting with Fred Schechter yesterday, an industrial designer based in northern California that I've been talking to on-and-off for the past couple of years. Industrial Design is one of those majors I wish I'd known about when I was applying to college; not knowing any better, I had gone into Electrical Engineering. Fred himself had originally started in Mechanical Engineering, but thanks to a chance conversation with a friend ("they have a MAJOR for making cool stuff???") he made an early exit and jumped to the world of product design. Anyway, we've been chatting about our mutual interest in making and selling our own products, and Fred's perspective on it from the industrial design / manufacturing side has been invaluable in fleshing out my next steps. He's an enthusiastic guy too, so if you're looking for someone to talk to about early-stage concept and prototyping for manufacturing, it's worth dropping him an email. Anyway, the conversation has helped solidify some thoughts on my personal career direction, so I thought I'd share them...
Fred has been an incredible (and credible) mentor and adviser on this latest Skyaak endeavor and I want to refer his talents to anybody who has an idea for the next 'big thing' but maybe lacks the expertise to take it to the next level.
The thing I am really enjoying most about our friendship and working relationship is Fred's unflagging optimistic spirit and his ability to 'cut to the chase' to distill the essence of an idea and take serious steps to work it out! I am very happy and excited about all of the progress we have made on our .pdf download project.
Just wait, this is gonna be lots of good clean fun!
BTW, I see that visitor #7001 has come and gone without claiming his *FREE* Skyaak Model 3.
Oh well, no biggie. We shall see what happens with visitor #8001, #9001, #10,001 and so on...
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