mwoodworth

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by mwoodworth 12y ago
They also are working on getting the tools that you need to design your prototype. Like Upverter (YCW2011) ( https://upverter.com/ ) for designing your PCB.
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by mwoodworth 12y ago
Hey Pinkyand, Already up and running, here is an example https://upverter.com/Willian/5836a558aea96a1b/Arduino-Due-Sh...
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OCP Hardware Hackathon gives winner 10k towards a startup(upverter.com)
2 points by mwoodworth 13y ago|0 comments
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Upverter (YC W11) Chases The Dream Of A Hardware Startup Revolution(techcrunch.com)
26 points by mwoodworth 14y ago|0 comments
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Final Day to Apply for YC Hardware Hackathon(upverter.com)
10 points by mwoodworth 14y ago|0 comments
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by mwoodworth 14y ago
OK, I am all for people coming from out of town! It would be great to get people form all over. For example, We at Upverter are Coming from Toronto, Canada! If you shoot us an email at upverter support, we will add you to a mailing list f
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by mwoodworth 14y ago
Unfortunately for this one we are only accepting people that are going to be able to be there in person. For the next one we do, we will try to incorporate remote participants.
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by mwoodworth 14y ago
Yes you can participate on your own. We have found that most of the time groups do better, but there are one person armies also work sometimes! We will not out you either, we are going to be talking with all the teams and make sure that we
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by mwoodworth 14y ago
You are allowed to build and prepare before hand. The Idea is to get a bunch of smart interesting people together in a room, make cool thing and have fun. I would guess by looking at some of the ideas so far that the hackathon will be jus
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by mwoodworth 14y ago
The deadline to apply is the 7th of February (that is so we can get back to everyone on the 8th). Although I always liked the YC let people apply late model, We Expect it to be a full house so I do not know if we can be able to except late
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by mwoodworth 14y ago
a little more on the analog design end, but I like: The Art of Electronics by Horowitz & Hill Integrated Electronics by Millman and Halkias (There was allegedly a newer edition published in 2001) Electrical Engineering 101: Everything Y
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by mwoodworth 14y ago
You should apply, but make sure you say what you experience is (in electronics and anything else that you do). We will take a look at the makeup of the applicants and see if we can get a good mix of people at the event, maybe you can help w
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by mwoodworth 14y ago
The Basics: We are designing hardware (schematics, pcb layout, even the software and mechanical drawings if that is what you want to build), and doing it in 12 hours. You can apply as an individual or as a team. If you are in a team already
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Y Combinator + Upverter Hardware Hackathon(upverter.com)
86 points by mwoodworth 14y ago|22 comments
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Alt text for images are important in email, too(blogs.msdn.com)
4 points by mwoodworth 15y ago|0 comments
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The Pirate Bay, Physibles And What It All Means(blog.upverter.com)
6 points by mwoodworth 15y ago|0 comments
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by mwoodworth 15y ago
The best advice I think you can get is: Get an alpha in other people's hands to test out. feedback on a pseudo working alpha is much more valuable than feedback on theory. Get your demo in as many hand as possible, get feedback, then itera
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by mwoodworth 15y ago
Upverter was in the YC class that started in Jan 2011.
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by mwoodworth 15y ago
I like that idea, putting it on the whiteboard. I really thing that having a way to get help from the community would help all designers.
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by mwoodworth 15y ago
I think he might have been a little upset when he wrote it.
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by mwoodworth 15y ago
we would love to chat with you about what you need it to do! shoot us an email @ support. p.s. I am one of the founder of Upverter
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by mwoodworth 15y ago
Thanks, We are using hardware because we are trying to enable making. Electronics is really near to our hearts, and a really big part of the way that we "make", so this is where we are starting.
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by mwoodworth 15y ago
we are working on it, are you looking for export of previous version of full file, or the exporting of the diffs?
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by mwoodworth 15y ago
Thanks tonyarkles, we thought that doing a rotate twice would solve that, but with op-amps a mirror might look better, I will add it to our to-do list.
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Upverter now has Import and Export(blog.upverter.com)
34 points by mwoodworth 15y ago|13 comments