New eBook explores how to move from inspiration to design

Designing an Idea begins with a foreword by Skullcandy Chief Product Officer Jeffrey L Hutchings, who examines how the path from idea to product is changing, with expanded access to tools and resources presenting organisations and individuals with new, more affordable routes to production. Special contributors to the new eBook include: Bob Martin, 'Wizard of Make' and Senior Staff Engineer at Microchip Technology; Josh Lifton PhD, graduate of the MIT Media Lab and co-founder and president of Crowd Supply; and Dr Andy Stanford-Clark, CTO of IBM in UK and Ireland.

The book also includes an innovation-to-productisation model that can help technology creators improve their chances of success. The Engineering Big Ideas series is supported by Mouser's valued suppliers Analog Devices, Intel, Microchip Technology and Molex.

Kevin Hess, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Mouser Electronics, says: "The road from idea to product can be arduous and filled with obstacles, but new technologies are opening up new and quicker paths. The Engineering Big Ideas series begins with a look at how innovators develop their concepts and where they go from there."

Mouser recently launched the Engineering Big Ideas series with a video that followed celebrity engineer Grant Imahara as he visited the Arizona test track of Nikola Motor Company. There, he spoke with CEO Trevor Milton about how Nikola Motor Company is bringing its vision for hybrid truck design to market, and revolutionising the economic and environmental impact of commerce in the process.

The Empowering Innovation Together programme has been one of the most recognised and notable electronic component marketing programmes since 2015, highlighting a range of innovative developments from IoT and smart cities of the future to robotics technologies.

To learn more about this and all of Mouser's Empowering Innovation Together series, go to www.mouser.com/empowering-innovation. Follow the link to read the new Designing an Idea eBook.