Category Archives: Prototyping
3 Best Practices for Lean Hardware Development
Working with a wide variety of inspired and dedicated hardware entrepreneurs, we see some common threads around what most young startups struggle with. Here are 3 best practices for lean hardware development we share time and time again that will … Continue reading
Cutting Edge 3D Printing Technologies (And the New Abilities They Give You)
Whether you’re using 3D printing for prototyping or manufacturing, it is an incredible new prototyping tool that has opened all kinds of doors for hardware startups and entrepreneurs. Now anyone with some basic CAD skills can see their vision realized … Continue reading
10 Maker Spaces In The USA That Hardware Startups NEED To Discover
A maker is someone who has a house filled with gadgets they built themselves, someone who probably owns several Raspberry Pi’s, and someone who enjoys taking old calculators apart. Makers are often inventors, sometimes entrepreneurs, generally techies, and they are … Continue reading
The Strategy Behind Prototyping
There is a lot more to effective prototyping than just the process of making the prototype. Done the right way, you can learn a tremendous amount of information from each round of prototyping…here’s how! Preparation Like most anything in life, … Continue reading
3D Printer Headed To Space
By Tony Kim It took one team of entrepreneurs to ask one question: What do we need to live on the moon? The answer they came up with was a 3D printer that can work in space. 3D printing has brought … Continue reading
Designers of Things Conference Offers Valuable Experience for Hardware Entrepreneurs
By Eli Sinaiko Attention Bay Area entrepreneurs, innovators, Hardwarians and startup investors! On September 23rd and 24th the Designer of Things (DoT) conference will be held in San Francisco at the Mission Bay Conference Center. The event is targeted towards … Continue reading
The Headphones of the Future?
By Eli Sinaiko It is difficult to stop oneself from losing productivity to daydreams about owning these headphones. Fortunately, thanks to an incredibly successful crowd-funding campaign which has raised over half a million dollars, you can either secure your own pair … Continue reading
The 8-Bit Lit Lamp Project (Part 2)
In this post I’ll continue where I left off in the last post and tell you more about our experience concerning the 8-Bit Lit Lamp project. Sourcing Materials By the end of the last post, we had hit a roadblock. The … Continue reading
The 8-Bit Lit Lamp Project (Part 1)
The following blog is written by an intern, Johnny Star, a mechanical engineering junior from UC Berkeley that worked with us throughout the summer. Since his perspective is similar to a lot of our client’s in terms of exposure to … Continue reading
The Best Time to Go to China to Oversee Product Manufacturing
I have a client who is on a tight timeline and we both think it will be a good idea for him to visit the factory with our team to help make decisions quickly to cut down the time to … Continue reading
