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=Market Research=
=Market Research=
*Market share report - [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://d2oqb2vjj999su.cloudfront.net/users/000/072/024/043/attachments/CordlessDrills_MktRpt_2010.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiEgJ7nzNXKAhXIWh4KHR6VAR4QFggaMAA&usg=AFQjCNE0B3-r4-TlZFKbkDveRC1epN5OgQ]
*Market share report - [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://d2oqb2vjj999su.cloudfront.net/users/000/072/024/043/attachments/CordlessDrills_MktRpt_2010.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwiEgJ7nzNXKAhXIWh4KHR6VAR4QFggaMAA&usg=AFQjCNE0B3-r4-TlZFKbkDveRC1epN5OgQ]
*Harbor Freight recalls 1.7M cordless Drill Master drills -[http://www.dispatch.com/content/blogs/product-recalls/2015/12/cordless-drills.html]
*The two above imply that there is at least 10M cordless drills sold in the USA every year. That is about a $1B market in the USA alone.
=Links=
=Links=
*Small one - [http://www.3dp-expo.com/yw/xwzx_show.asp?nid=1525]
*Small one - [http://www.3dp-expo.com/yw/xwzx_show.asp?nid=1525]

Revision as of 03:27, 1 February 2016

Requirements

Problem statement - drills are throwaway devices. They break and you can't fix them readily because they are not appropriate technology. Here we design the world's first appropriate technology cordless drill.

The goal is to select an appropriate @Depth of Modularity to make any cordless drill motor, battery, speed trigger, gear set, and Chuck interoperable with any other.

This converts any drill to one about 10-100 times cheaper (lifetime extends from 1 to 100 years, and cost drops from 100 to about 25.


Market Research

  • Market share report - [1]
  • Harbor Freight recalls 1.7M cordless Drill Master drills -[2]
  • The two above imply that there is at least 10M cordless drills sold in the USA every year. That is about a $1B market in the USA alone.

Links

  • Small one - [3]
  • Startasys - [4]
  • Taking a DC motor out of a cordless drill -@[5]
  • Alibaba cordless drill motors - [6]