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Document your ideas in a notebook, date and initial them.
Get a recommendation for a good patent attorney- most will give you an hour consultation for free and consult with you on the next steps. Learn how to use a patent search engine, I like "freepatentsonline.com" and search the claims for what you are trying to do.
Be cautious about showing anyone the idea specifically, or allowing them to offer suggestions on how to make it work/function/do the method better/etc. as they then become an inventor.
And contrary to what you hear, no you CANNOT mark your device "patent pending" having not filed a provisional application first. Marking as such without doing the latter is fraudulent.
All the best! Go do it!
BG
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