{"id":77,"date":"2021-03-14T10:48:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T10:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtnstormdaq.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2021-03-20T06:48:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T06:48:09","slug":"long-overdue-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtnstormdaq.com\/blog\/long-overdue-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Overdue Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Q1: What happened to the main website for Mountain Storm Instruments LLC ?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main web page for the biz. was running an older copy of Joomla 2.x. I needed to migrate it to 3.x because PHP was getting upgraded on the website from 5.x to 7.x. I failed to do this before the upgrade happened because I’ve been very busy dealing with ton of other things. So now I can’t see a path to migrate to 3.x. The 2.x would not run, so I just switched the website to the blog for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So until I figure out if I am going with Joomla 3.x or WordPress for the main site and what I am going to put on it, the blog will have to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Q2: What’s going on with Mountain Storm Instruments ?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a much harder question to answer. Over the last several years I’ve created and tried to sell several SmartDAQ platforms with better technology, easier to use s\/w, and better marketing, but closing on sales proved elusive. A major problem I ran into was US ITAR (International Traffic Arms Regulations). The US has many outdated restrictions on technology sales and although there was a few interested foreign research institutes in the products I didn’t have any money left to spend on figuring out how to get through US export controls and foreign import controls and regulations for electronics equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been focusing learning and biz. ideas in the areas of software defined radio and AI\/ML. It’s been a lot of learning and I’ve spent a bit on money on a few ideas that proved not work so well for one reason or another. I’ve spent about 2 yrs. trying to develop a good biz. model that can work with the limited resources I have. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been working on FMC RF ADC cards and FPGA IP cores as the basis to build more complete systems on down the road targeting R&D markets with the goal of eventually selling complete RADAR and RF sensing systems with integrated AI\/ML.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So not quite dead yet…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q1: What happened to the main website for Mountain Storm Instruments LLC ? The main web page for the biz. was running an older copy of Joomla 2.x. I needed to migrate it to 3.x because PHP was getting upgraded on the website from 5.x to 7.x. I failed to do this before the upgrade… Continue reading Long Overdue Update<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtnstormdaq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtnstormdaq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtnstormdaq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtnstormdaq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtnstormdaq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mtnstormdaq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/mtnstormdaq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtnstormdaq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtnstormdaq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtnstormdaq.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}