Hello World!

For this inaugural post I would like to present a few rough details about my background as well as outline the general purpose of this blog.

I'm a independent software developer who has spent the last 20 years bouncing around the Boston area participating on many software project across many different industries while simultaneously working on various interesting projects of my own.

I love, live breath and eat software development...

Ever since I was about 10 years old, when my older brother started teaching me how to program on his TRS-80 color computer, coding has been both part of my daily activities as well as a steadily more prominent feature of my overall identity.

I have always nurtured many passions and interests, but no pastime has ever been as fundamental as programming and most have involved programming in one way or another.

Now, with that out of the way... the purpose of this blog is to detail a new project I'm working on that involves more than just software engineering.

Without disclosing too many specifics... I've dreamed up a very ( ... to me at least) interesting concept for a wearable device that I hope to take from prototype to legitimate marketable application and then possibly to Kickstarter or some other crowdfunding venue.

The proposed device, like so many wearable/mobile devices today, involves an accelerometer and various other sensors but yet... nothing quite like it exists.

I like to think of this concept as an application of physioinformatics or bodyinformatics or possibly more simply as a "body information" device.

But for now... let's leave it at that.

If you follow along with this blog, I will disclose more and more of the concept as it becomes more real and in due course, you will know everything you ever wanted to know about it.

Why all the secrecy...

Firstly, I'm not entirely sure that I can pull this concept off... my background is squarely in software development and while I have tinkered over the years with various simplistic electrical engineering projects (re-wiring telescope motors, electric guitars and creating pickups, distortion and phasing foot pedals), I am by NO MEANS skilled in this area... in other words, I'd like to save face if I'm in way over my head!

Further, I truly believe in this concept and feel strongly that it represents a clear marketable application with the possibility of lots of new intellectual property, so while I would like to be as open as possible with the development, I still intend on keeping a cloak around some of the better concepts... at least until I have a strong foothold.

At some point, I may even consider open-sourcing both the hardware and the software but for now, I'm planning on just taking things one step at a time.

I'm hoping this blog will serve as both a log of the development, but more importantly, help to focus and collect my thoughts and efforts to better meet the challenges of each task at hand... I have found that there is nothing quite like writing to help channel the dealings of a complicated task into a productive direction.

Also, I need your feedback! ... I'm hoping that there are others out there that will take an interest in this project and possibly even contribute to the effort ... even if just with some terse random comments.

Best to all...