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Lizzy Bennett: We still make stuff in San Francisco
- MediaBehavior 16y agoSo does Waterfield Designs (sfbags.com). My one WF bag outlasted 2 PowerBooks and is now carrying my MBP. I'd love an indepth story on them (beyond their own descriptions on their site). Not to be a fanboy of WF or Apple, there does seem to be a similarity in their target markets: people sensitive to both design and usability.
- jpancake 16y agoFor the record, the majority of Timbuk2's bags are made in China. It's only their custom bags that are made in the city.
- daniel_reetz 16y agoWho are the startups making physical things as part of their business? I've seen wakemate and square... and few others. As a hardware hacker/builder, I'm very, very interested in startups that make physical things, or need people that make physical things. Right now I work in corporate R&D, and spend most of my day building/rapid prototyping things that will never see the light of day. HN and the startup world feel overwhelmingly software-based... but surely there must be a need for people like me, who can hack hardware and iterate on atoms very quickly. Can anyone give me a feeling of who and where those places might be? I'd like to get a better sense of what's been done and how people are using hardware in this space.
- derekdahmer 16y agoNeuron Robotics is a Boston-area startup making a little USB device for prototyping hardware and robots with really easy to java libraries. http://www.neuronrobotics.com/neuronrobotics/store/dyio/ http://www.neuronrobotics.com/neuronrobotics/store/dyio/
- daniel_reetz 16y agoThanks, Derek, hadn't heard about these guys.