Final Blog

Overall, I learned a lot about entrepreneurship in relation to my technology. It helped that the product I wanted to create was all technology based.  From the start of the project I was a little hesitant about creating such a complex product, but then as my idea developed I learned that it was more possible than I thought. My product has incorporated many of the topics we covered in class such as excel, hardware, input and output, bits and bytes, and networks. I think that this project could expand for many weeks because I only touched on a few topics.

I also learned that creating a project or business has so many components and I was unaware of how difficult it would be. There are so many aspects of creating a project, and it goes a lot deeper than just summarizing how maybe my product would work. Nonetheless, I really enjoyed this project and think that my product would be a hit and I am sure someday it will be real- just not by me.

Week Eight: Networks

This past week we were talking about networks and protocols. For my product both would be very essential. Networks would be used as they are in any other computer but for the printer part it would be a little bit harder. Printers use many protocols, similar to computers, and that includes Line Printer Daemon protocol/Line Printer Remote protocol (LPD, LPR) or Common Unix Printing System (CUPS), and Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). 

            LPD is used for a remote printer, which is the network it used for submitting print jobs. It had originated from a UNIX operating system. Then CUPS is used more and is more modern and that uses a Linux operating system. CUPS supports both of LPD protocol and the IPP. These protocols is how the printer would communicate with the computer to send requests and receive responses.  Printers could also use ASCII code like computers.

Connections are done by using a printer port or a COM port (hardware cables). Another way to print it to have the computer running the network operating system, using fileserver. Printer server software sends the print job down the cable but the printer must be close to the fileserver to print. I think for my product this is what would be used because this is more popular in smaller networks which is what the two in one computer printer would be. 

Famous Blogger: Online Tricks

Online Trick is a blog started by Akil and Ashiq two teenage boys from India. I know that doesn’t sound like a “famous” blogger put when I was searching around Google for famous computer bloggers this came up as top 50. Their main goal is to provide people with Online Tricks for today’s technology and software by using tutorials. They also want to keep people informed on the latest technology updates.

            I really liked this blog for a few reasons. One, I think my idea is something they would blog about. I think that a computer and printer in one is something new and definitely worth blogging about. Also, I read the bio on the two boys and they just had a huge passion for technology and software and networking and I liked how they took their passions, blogged about it, and got famous.

http://onlinepctrick.blogspot.com/ This is their link if you feel like reading it, maybe you will get inspired…like me! 

Comment on Others Blogs

For this week I have decided to comment on 3 other people's labs.
They are the following links!

http://carolyn-blackburne.blogspot.com/

http://cine-mate.blogspot.com/

http://erinarose.blogspot.com/

Week Six: Bits and Bytes

This week we talked a little bit about bits and bytes and ASCII Code. This code is 7 bit (128 values) This take care of 0-9, A-Z , a-z and punctuation but that is outdated and now we use UNICODE because this can handle ALL languages. More than 100,000, universal character set and still includes ASCII.

In relation to my product, we would use this in both the printer and in the computer. The computer of course has our keyboards and such which usually is the first thing that comes to mind when talking about ASCII codes and UNICODE, but people probably forget that printers also use these codes. Printers need to know how to print things, where on the page to print them, etc. For example, to bring in bold the code is 27 40 115 51 66, then to also print landscape style it is 27 38 108 49 79.

Of course my product would be using bits and bytes in countless ways but here its just a little touch on what is and a few examples. 

Input and Output

Input and Output are again, very very important to my product. To start, I would defintialy use RFID to track everything. Each component of the computer would need to be accounted for and RFID would make it very easy to walk into the backroom and know how many hard drives or how many printer belts we had in one second.

Another part of input and output I would use would be QR codes. These I would use for advertising. Since my  product would be so new to the market, people would want to know more about it and this way they can scan it with their smartphone, perhaps while looking to buy a new computer at Best Buy or some place like that, and then find out more about this newer computer and printer in one. (Still working on a better name)

Lastly, the very technical part of the computer of course would need input and output, I mean I think that is what this computer is all about- combining the two. Having a printer not even need to be output, and instead being all in one would be the objective. And then of course this laptop would still have all the usual input products such as video cards, sound cards, microphone, etc.