http://www.ycombinator.com/ideas.html http://www.ycombinator.com/ideas.html 27. Hardware/software hybrids. Most hackers find hardware projects alarming. You ha

http://www.ycombinator.com/ideas.html http://www.ycombinator.com/ideas.html 27. Hardware/software hybrids. Most hackers find hardware projects alarming. You have to deal with messy, expensive physical stuff. But Meraki shows what you can do if you're willing to venture even a little way into hardware. There's a lot of low-hanging fruit in hardware; you can often do dramatically new things by making comparatively small tweaks to existing stuff.