Comments on: Dumb Ideas, I

By: rmorlok

rmorlok — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:42:38 +0000

Thanks eero, it’s great to get feedback from someone who has some actual knowledge in manufacturing engineering. I guess the above production problem is what you get when a programmer does physical design work I’d be interested to see what you come up with for your project.

By: eero

eero — Sun, 03 May 2009 06:55:51 +0000

I just found your blog post when researching my own coffee lid design for a uni project. And as I have thought of various aspects of the design of these things for days I thought I’d put in my 5 cents.

Though a clever solution to your problem it has one major flaw – it can’t be produced with a single press die and would require more complex manufacturing process. Thus making this simple object a lot more expensive and thus probably impractical to make in batch quantities.

By: rmorlok

rmorlok — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:27:32 +0000

That’s ok. You’ll make your millions by selling your recipes, move into general home decorating, then get convicted of insider stock trading.

By: Parisa

Parisa — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:42:42 +0000

Ingenious. Unfortunately, with something like this in mass production, I’ll have no chance of retiring early on account of another hot coffee spill civil suit

By: rmorlok

rmorlok — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:10:50 +0000

The idea on the starbucks site is here.

By: rmorlok

rmorlok — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:08:40 +0000

Thanks John, I didn’t know about that site. I submitted a post, so maybe they’ll fix the problem.

By: Carrino

Carrino — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:40:38 +0000

You should submit this to mystarbucksidea.com

By: rmorlok

rmorlok — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:59:38 +0000

Via comment on this post on Facebook:

http://www.littlegreenplug.com/index.html

Apparently there are other approaches to solving the problem. The above is a plug for the cup. Hopefully, my idea would solve the same problem (thank Brian).

By: rmorlok

rmorlok — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:15:46 +0000

Yeah, you totally got marked as spam by my automatic filter dude. In the future try to post something more intelligent than the average viagra message

By: Shoe

Shoe — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:17:02 +0000

“The observations and solutions are usually pretty good (my opinion . . .”

You’re “special” morlok . . .