He bought the PVC pipe chassis online, along with an electric motor (he discarded his initial pedal-powered design because of the San Francisco hills) and began to build the vehicle in his driveway.
The idea to put tools that stitch together and automate web services in the hands of consumers has been around for a long time – most notably, perhaps, with Yahoo Pipes, an online service for mashing up and manipulating content from around the web.
Before there were tools like IFTTT, which lets you mash up data from web services along with other content in new ways, there was Yahoo Pipes, an online (and somewhat geeky) visual interface that let you aggregate and filter web data without requiring the end user to have programming skills.
Chong was charged for his role in promoting and financing Chong Glass/Nice Dreams, an online pipe distribution company he started with his son, Paris.
And yet, in our pipe-up-happy online culture, few people try.
She buys her pipes through an online shop and gets her marijuana from her daughter, Loren, who is 65.
It's one of the reasons that we pushed so hard on net neutrality and keeping the pipes open for online video.
Today the only available option is to monitor material transport between unit operations; i.e. flow rate, solids concentration, and particle size distribution of suspension flow in pipes are measured online using standard equipment.
In the nicest possible way, it's a bit like living inside a literature seminar – one in which almost any of the 3 billion people currently online might pipe up at any moment.
The direct online sales pipe route to consumers is growing, eating into carriers' influence with their network of retail shops.
