“When’s the best time to drink protein?” It’s one of the questions I hear most, both from people who’ve just started taking protein and from people who’ve been at it for a while. Magazines and websites cover it constantly, but the answers are scattered all over the place, and it’s hard to know which one…
Miaomada’s flagship product, the ALENNE Protein Dispenser, is built in the factories of our parent company, Showa Denki Co., Ltd., based in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo. Founded in 1932, this year marks our 94th year of continuous precision parts manufacturing. A Company That Started in 1932 Making High-Pressure Equipment Showa Denki’s predecessor was Nippon Koatsu Kogyo…
“What kind of company is Miaomada, exactly?”It’s a question I get from people who’ve come across the ALENNE protein dispenser or our Little Konbi trading cards storage boxes and want to know who’s behind them. About Miaomada Miaomada Co., Ltd. is a small manufacturing company based in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo. Showa Denki Co., Ltd. is…
You started drinking protein, and now you realize you haven’t touched it in weeks. This is one of the most common patterns in supplements. Among fitness supplements, protein has an unusually high barrier to habit formation. You drink it once or twice a day, at specific times, with real prep effort each time. If you…
Search ‘protein dispenser’ online and you’ll find plenty of options. Most look the same from the outside, but the difference is what happens inside, and whether it actually works. The ALENNE Protein Dispenser was granted a Japanese patent on its dosing mechanism (Japan Patent No. 7580860). Filed in May 2024 and registered after more than…
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Part 1 followed the first Makuake campaign for DP-M1: the material challenges, the mid-campaign spec change, and shipping on time against the odds. Part 2 is where we took everything we learned and built something better, the DP-M2, and the Makuake campaign that followed. The Limits of DP-M1: “This Alone Isn’t Going to Work” During…
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Miaomada has run two crowdfunding campaigns on Makuake (think Kickstarter, but Japanese) for our protein dispenser. The first, for DP-M1, finished with 133 backers and ¥1,895,000 (about US$12,600). The second, for DP-M2, brought in 179 backers and ¥2,947,500 (about US$19,650). In total, 312 backers and just over ¥4.84M (about US$32,000). The numbers alone look clean….
Most people who drink protein measure with the scoop that came in the bag. It’s already there, it costs nothing extra, and there’s no obvious reason to question it. I used to do the same thing. For nearly three years I scooped my protein every morning and assumed that was just how it worked. Then…
Search “how to store protein” and the same advice surfaces every time: keep it airtight. Avoid moisture. Avoid pests. Avoid oxidation. The reasoning is straightforward. But over two to three years of running a dedicated protein storage and dosing device (our protein dispenser), the picture has shifted a bit. For typical month-long usage cycles, airtightness…
The heart of a protein dispenser is its dosing mechanism. “Pull a lever, get a measured dose of powder.” The sentence is simple. Getting it to actually work, consistently, took 19 prototype revisions, REV0 through REV18. That mechanism, by the way, came directly out of the failed motorization attempt described in Development Story Part 2….