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For Hardware Entrepreneurs, Getting From Idea to Reality Isn’t Easy
- bootload 17y agohttp://www.tinker.it http://www.tinker.it turns this article on it's head cf: "Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work?" ~ http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/16-11/ff_openmanufacturing?currentPage=all http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/16-11/ff_open...
- theschwa 17y agoI'm currently working on prototypes for a potential hardware start up, and I'd love to hear more from the HN community that has dealt with that hardware software interaction for a start up. This place seems pretty software focused, but there must be some more hardware people out there as well.
- blackguardx 17y agoI'm a hardware guy. In my opinion, the easiest way to start a hardware startup is to target businesses. It makes things so much simpler than having to worry about selling to the general public.
- joe_bleau 17y agoWe do hardware, but we're not a startup. (Very small company, though.) What would you like to hear?
- theschwa 17y agoI'd like to hear more about the process of finding a manufacturer. In particularly, the back and forth between working on prototypes and tweaking the hardware and relaying the information to the manufacturer. Also, how important the connection between hardware and any software.
- joubert 17y agoI was at Clickable's Interesting Cafe on Monday, and Peter Semmelhack of Bug Labs gave an impressive presentation on his vision of lowering the cost barrier for would-be hardware entrepreneurship. http://www.buglabs.net/ http://www.buglabs.net/
- acgourley 17y agoI'm taking a stab at this myself. Feel free to follow my progress here, I'll be blogging it pretty in depth if I can actually keep it going. http://projectexcitebike.blogspot.com/ http://projectexcitebike.blogspot.com/