Celebration Show 100 Episodes – Ep 100 – Scott Tarcy

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Celebration Show 100 Episodes – Ep 100 – Scott Tarcy

Well, we did it. We hit 100 episodes. In light of that, I thought I would review some of my favorite topics and mentions some projects I have done recently.

1. Episode 2, Rick Daley and licensing

• Don’t have to make actual product but a prototype helps a ton

• Can also use CAD renderings

• Can make a lot of money from licensing

2. Episodes 14 with Andrew Bougie and 53 with Matt Holling about 3d scanning

• Scanning is a great way to reverse engineer complicated existing parts

• Point cloud – stl file – to solidworks file

• Good scanner will cost 10k-30k

3. Episodes 70 with Alex Hobson and Ep 56 with James Wilson about Patents and IP

• In these episodes, we covered how the entire patent process works and the steps you should take when you have a new invention idea.

• Should first check on uspto.gov to see if patent already exists. My recommendation is to look at images.

• If you don’t see, file a provisional patent. It’s cheap and gives you one year protection before you need full patent.

4. Some projects I was hired for:

• Condiment bottle – printed in durable resin and works just like a blow molded PP bottle.

• AutoCad blocks – conveyor system that the client could drop in on his manufacturing plant layout to make sure it fits.

5. Tonal shelf

• Always looking to create new products that will create passive income.

• Can’t remember exactly how I thought of creating a product for tonal users, but when I looked at the cost of buying a tonal, I could this was a good market.

• If someone is going to spend $4000 on an exercise machine, they have plenty of disposable income. I should be able to sell for $100.

• The machine has 4 different handles, so need place to store the extras.

• Created a shelf to hold these, make it by 3d printing. Tooling would cost a fortune.

• Gave a local guy free samples in return for testing it out for me. Took 9 revisions before I sold the first one. Based on feedback made one more revision for a total of 10.

• It has been very successful.