SAGLE — Jason Giddings has been inventing since he was 12 years old.

With his extensive experience in Kickstarter campaigns, the Sagle resident will present "Kickstarter 101" at the Inventor's Association of Idaho's next monthly meeting. His most recent invention is the "Screen-Door Green-House," and Giddings said he is working to get it on Kickstarter.

"The product is a greenhouse that replaces your screen door on any standard-size sliding-glass window," Giddings said. "The cool thing is that it slides on the track just like your screen. You can open the glass and slide the greenhouse to the opening and work on your plants from the convenience of the indoors. You can slide it to one side and use the glass door normally. It traps the sunlight, and also holds in the wasted heat that is naturally lost from the inside of the house through the window."

Giddings said he originally moved to the area when he had an opportunity to manufacture one of his product ideas known as the "Translusense Glass Keyboard," which was a successful Kickstarter project. He and his family were living in the Portland area when the opportunity came up, and Giddings said he knew setting up a manufacturing facility would make it hard to move again in the future.

A European investor put up $3 million, with an agreement to put in another $4 million once the product was ready to manufacture. Giddings set up the manufacturing facility in one of the old Coldwater Creek buildings. It was all ready to go when the investor went out of business, Giddings said. Unfortunately, he said, the project went into arbitration and without any money left, it just "fizzled out."

Giddings has a degree in aerospace engineering from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. He owns two small companies in the area and works from his home in Sagle. One of his companies manufactures and sells a product that turns smartphones into a rifle or bow scope and has optional thermal night vision functionality — inteliscopes.com. The other is a product development company, Giddings Product Development,  where he designs, tools, and manufactures products for other companies and individuals who don’t have the infrastructure to manage engineering and manufacturing. He has designed hundreds of products for companies as big as Hewlett-Packard and Boeing, to companies started by individuals with a single product idea.

For his current invention, Giddings said he hopes to do well enough on Kickstarter to pay for the tooling, which will cost about $80,000.

"If it is successful on Kickstarter, that will tell me if the product is good enough to start a business around, and allow me to start a company in the Sandpoint area to manufacture and distribute these all over the world. With some luck, it could be the next 'Topsy Turvy upside down tomato planter,'" Giddings said.

The IAoI group will meet at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the second-floor conference room of the Columbia Bank building, 414 Church St. The meeting is open to the public, and IAoI will hold its regular mixer afterward for mingling and learning from experts.

Mary Malone can be reached by email at mmalone@bonnercountydailybee.com and follow her on Twitter @MaryDailyBee.