Cowritten by Madison Reid and Oleha Riden At MistyWest, our foundation is rooted in sustainable design – our first projects were designing electric vehicles and fuel cells for hybrid vehicles. As the company has evolved over the years, we’ve worked on smart IoT monitoring, ubiquitous air quality sensing systems, off-grid appliances for developing countries, and …
San Francisco Design Week is a week-long, multi-event festival in the Bay area that showcases creativity, innovation and intersections of many different industries.We work with many great teams in the Bay Area, so SFDW has been on our event roster for the past 4 years, and during 2018’s Design Week studio crawl we even partnered …
Written by Phil Tsao, former Westie. Introduction MistyWest’s mechanical and physics team recently put their skills to the test on a fluid dynamics project that required a low cracking pressure check valve designed to withstand harsh outdoor conditions, and allow passive draining of water. During research, we came across a family of elastomer check valves …
Written by Ryan Walker, former MistyWest employee. Proof of work is the traditional method of forming consensus on a distributed network; it relies on an arbitrary set of decentralized nodes which are all solving similar hashing puzzles. Unfortunately, PoW has a non negligible carbon footprint and as a response, researchers have been building alternate consensus …
Written by Angela May We had the recent opportunity to tear down a Sensirion SPS30 Particle Matter Sensor. This was an exciting opportunity for us, as we have experience developing particle sensors, and we haven’t seen air quality sensors in such a tight form factor. The device boasts “superior accuracy” in an “ultra-slim package”, and …
Since 2014, MistyWest has been taking in co-ops for work terms. While we would describe the energy around the office to be pretty youthful in general, having students around can give us fresh perspectives on the work that we are creating, reminding us why we wanted to pursue engineering and design in the first place. …
As MistyWest continues to blossom into a consultancy of flowering sales and marketing initiatives, the variety of events that we send Westies to in an effort to water the seeds of partnership also continues to grow. This was our second SXSW, and this year we sent Oleha Riden, Rebecca Apostoli, Dave MacLeod, Dan Millar and …
SXSW is a festival that is truly centered at the intersection of technology and culture. Although MistyWest is primarily a technology company, we believe music is a key part of a shared global culture that we all participate in, regardless of industry. In the lead up to SXSW Interactive, we look forward to checking out …
Written by Senzeni Mpofu, former Westie CES is undoubtedly the capstone event for us at MistyWest. This is the one time in the year that our network of global clients, partners, vendors and suppliers congregates in one city for a week of learning, networking and (let’s admit it) partying. As is tradition, we brought together …
CES always seems to hit us like a fever dream; the bright lights of the Vegas strip, the deafening noise of the conference centre, the fast-paced rush of trying to see as much as possible on never-enough sleep–it comes and goes in the blink of an eye. And then we find ourselves groggy, bodies aching, …
This post originally appeared on Isobar’s ‘The Squeeze‘. Every year at CES, the first place I visit is Eureka Park. Typically, it’s the best combination of optimistic technology, naive startups, audacious inventors, and freaky gadgets that barely make sense. If you want to see what CES 2023 is going to look like, go to Eureka …
Have you ever had an interaction with a piece of technology- be it hardware, software or even a basic household tool, and been struck by the ease or simplicity with which it helped you accomplish your goal? Every day we interact with good design and in most cases we’re not even aware because the experience …
This is the first time a team from MistyWest will be attending the annual South By Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, TX. Every year thousands of technology companies, start-ups, speakers and superfans converge in the southern Texas town to pitch products, share ideas and network. We’re so excited to be sending down four Westies to …
This year MistyWest was pleased to send a team of seven Westies to our third Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. While the harsh desert climate offered up torrential rain, flash floods and power outages–our team successfully battled trials of a different variety: formidable crowds, sensory overload and the Nerd Flu. While the #CESsomale hashtag …
Written by Justin Lam, former Westie. Disclaimer:Â Light therapy is one method of easing seasonal affective disorder (SAD); some people swear by it whereas others remain unaffected. This blog post does not intend to refute the effectiveness of light therapy, but rather to dig deeper into the technology behind these light therapy lamps to better educate …
