Alamo Inventors, San Antonio, Texas

Come and learn about inventing and how to take your idea to the next level.
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Once a month, we have a meeting with a presentation about something invention related. Sometimes it's the creative part, like how someone came up with an idea. Sometimes it's the legal parts, like protection, patents, trademark, & licensing. Manufacturing comes up a lot, and so does marketing. We always enjoy our speakers, and we always learn from them. Questions are always encouraged, and our speakers share insights you can't get anywhere else. Before the meeting, you can visit with other inventors. New faces are always welcome, and if you have questions about invention or patents or marketing or ... there are usually members who can help guide you.

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Meeting Date
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
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6PM CST, usually until 8PM or so. This meeting is online, on Zoom

Topic:
The Delta Buoy: Floating A New Idea

Speaker:
Matthew Freed

While filming a snake hunting TV series in the swamps of Louisiana, Matthew met his business partner, Lesley, an avid bow fisherman, who together envisioned the beginnings of a device to float hunting bows in the water. Much work needed to be done to make it functional and a viable product so Matthew and Lesley dug into designing and prototyping new ideas until the Delta Buoy was a fully functioning, self-inflating, reusable device sufficiently buoyant to lift larger items out of the water.

Matthew will explain how the pair faced hurdles from every aspect of the device’s development: materials, manufacturing, legal, shapes and even colors. He will describe how over time it required tugging the ears of pharmacists, metallurgists, wireless microphone manufacturers and plastic injection molding companies for answers on materials, mechanics and chemistry. Little by little all the boxes got checked. 3D prints, prototype parts milled by hand, even silicone mold kits from Amazon all helped shape the final design.

After years of sketches, drawings, combining one item with another item, the design began to take shape. Constantly iterating, solving one problem, then another, then another, etc. by asking for advice, ideas or suggestions on materials, shapes and manufacturing abilities.

In addition, he will provide detail on how the product will be marketed.

Furthermore, Matthew will explain details on other products he has developed, patented and is currently marketing.

See
www.BlackbirdCarts.com
www.ThinkeryLabs.com
www.ProductionContacts.com
www.LastyBands.com

Matthew was raised in Minnesota to a family who owned a small machine shop where problem solving was the norm. Growing up around constant iteration and working out problems to get the needed solutions, instilled confidence that any hurdle could be overcome. Then, during his 20’s Matthew played, recorded and produced music for a living which led to production sound mixing for TV, films and commercials. There’s no business like show business and it’s all about quickly and efficiently coming up with solutions. Now living in Dallas, TX, Matthew owns and operates multiple companies and brands in addition to Ablewood Group, Inc, which invests in new products and technologies to bring them to market.



Guests are welcome.

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Alamo Inventors Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group
The next special interest group meeting is September 17th at 12:00 noon at Launch SA, just inside the San Antonio Central Public Library (downtown at 600 Soledad St, 1st Floor, San Antonio, TX 78205)

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