Author: David Sastry

David has two decades of experience as a senior engineer at Intel Corporation, Freescale and Marvell Semiconductors. Before joining Freedom Motors he was a Principle Consultant for Infosys in their IoT Practice. David holds BS and MS degrees from Ohio State University in electrical engineering, with an emphasis on computer architecture and digital design. David is responsible for Freedom Motors' IT systems, social media outreach, managing corporate operations and contributing to business development.

17 Subscriber Accounts

Subscriber Accounts

Since I added the ability for users to register and subscribe to the blog, a few of you have taken advantage of it.  We have 17 subscribers registered so far.  Subscribing will allow you to edit your previous posts, and you can change your avatar and a few other things as well.  Eventually we give other users associated with Freedom Motors the ability to post as well.  This could be potential business partners, customers, etc. Continue reading “17 Subscriber Accounts”

A grinding we will go…

Hello Everyone,

As part of our process for developing a low-volume engine builds, we must get our rotary housings’ inner trochoid ground and lapped to a specific tolerance.  Our designs require a less than [proprietary] variance in the epitrochoid of the rotor housing.  (Sorry, I cannot share the details, this is information that is yet to be patented.)  I will say that very few machine shops exist that can meet our specs.  I only found one in Northern California.  There was one in Los Angeles that did this work for Freedom Motors in the past, but they are out of business. Continue reading “A grinding we will go…”

New Blog Features

Blog Accounts

Hi Everyone,

I’ve enabled some new features on the FM blog.  You can now register your own user name – this gives you the ability to add comments without having to put your username and email each time.  Also, you can go back and edit comments you previously posted without time limits.  You can still post anonymously, but it will only give you a 10 minute time window to edit the comments after it is posted.  Of course, if you ever want to edit or delete an old comment, you can just shoot me an email and I’ll take care of it. Continue reading “New Blog Features”

Freedom Motors is Hiring!

Hi Everyone,

Yes it is true, we are going to start collecting resumes (we already have a few).  We have 2 positions for immediate staffing needs:  an experienced machinist and a mid-career technician – these will be full-time positions.  More details on the job descriptions and candidate requirements will be released soon – this blog post is the first announcement.  I’m working on a job posting/application system for our website (and still dreaming of the day I can hire another IT guy to help me) where these jobs will be posted.  In the meantime, feel free to send me resumes of anyone you know who is looking for work in these areas (my email is on the sidebar to the right).

That’s my only major update for today…but FM is moving forward and our plans are picking up momentum!

Best Regards – Dave

Valley Air

Investors Hub

Hello All,

I want to re-post a long message I put up on InvestorsHub.  I did this in response to questions that were being raised on that message board, as I was alerted to some concerns being raised.  I decided to put a “status update” on the board, and now I am including a copy here (since there is a lot of information in the post).  I will follow this up with some status updates for the week. Continue reading “Valley Air”

Virtual Data Room

Data Room?

Hi Everyone,

Sorry I have not posted in more than a week.  Things have been pretty uninteresting this past week as I have been focused on paperwork.  I have lately been focused on a virtual “Data Room” for FM.  It’s a common thing in the business world of mergers & acquisitions.   But, when you are applying for capital investment from funding organizations, they also want to see a lot of information about the company in a well organized data room.  For example, VCs will be required by their bosses, the LPs (limited partners) to deep dive into any potential investment, looking at corporate history, staff, customers, cash-flow, financial statements, legal history, patents, etc.   It’s a LOT of heavy lifting to put all this together, and I have taken on this “lovely” task.   We need a data room for our application with Elemental Excelerator anyways, so I had to start this process. Continue reading “Virtual Data Room”