Privacy and disclaimer

Disclaimer

Everything on this site is educational. It describes how product development, cost and phasing generally work. It is not legal, patent, tax, financial or engineering advice, and reading it or emailing the author does not create a client, attorney-client or any other professional relationship.

Examples are hypothetical or anonymized. The bracket, the flashlight, and any other product described in the articles are illustrations built from the kinds of things that happen in real projects. They do not describe any actual client or product.

No guarantees. Every product is different. Nothing here is a quote, a promise of a price, a schedule or a result. Cost and timeline figures are typical ranges where sourced, and are marked where a source is still pending.

Standards named on this site (for example ANSI/PLATO FL1 or IEC 60529) are mentioned to explain how requirements are written. Naming a standard does not mean any product or company is certified to it.

Decisions about a specific product, contract, patent or budget belong with qualified professionals who know the details.

Privacy

What is collected. If a visitor allows analytics, the site uses Google Analytics to count visits and see which pages are read. IP addresses are anonymized. Analytics is off until the visitor allows it, and the choice is stored in the browser so it is not asked again.

If a visitor sends the contact form, the name, email address, the optional fields, the message and the page the visitor came from are stored so a reply can be sent. The form is protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, which may process technical information about the browser to tell people from bots.

The site is hosted on Cloudflare, which keeps standard server logs.

What is not collected. No advertising trackers, no social media pixels, no sale or sharing of visitor data with anyone. No cookies other than the analytics cookie, and only after consent.

Email. Messages sent to the contact address are read by the author and kept in a normal mailbox. They are not shared, except where an answer requires asking someone else, in which case the sender is asked first.

Requests. To see, correct or delete anything held about a visitor, email j.wayne.weber@pm.me.

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Articles on this site may be quoted and shared with attribution and a link. Republishing an entire article needs permission; email to ask.

Last reviewed: November 12, 2026.