Welcome to the 2013 Hardware Innovation Workshop
Experience the open hardware revolution firsthand!
MAKE Hardware Innovation Workshop
The Innovation Showcase
Perhaps the defining experience of the Workshop is the Tuesday evening event: a unique opportunity to casually engage with over two dozen makers who have their cutting-edge products and devices on display. Partly a mini Maker Faire designed for maker pros, partly a social, networking event in the middle of a packed agenda. Creating an almost magical atmosphere where hardware innovation and creative genius generates spirited ideation, the Innovation Showcase is not to be missed.
Check out the lineup of startups in this year's Innovation Showcase:
- Bia Sport
- Blossom Coffee
- Circuits.io
- Dash Robotics
- Dynamo Development Labs
- Electric Imp
- Fonly Insitute
- LumiGeek LED
- Lumio
- MakieLab
- NanoSatisfi
- Nomiku
- OnNom Project
- OpenXC, Ford Motor Company's Silicon Valley Lab
- Otherfab
- Pebble
- Pinoccio
- Robot Garden
- SandBox 3DP
- Scout
- Skinth Solutions
- Skycatch
- Solar Pocket Factory
- Spark Devices
- Tesseract Industrial
(Note: we're still adding companies with exciting, early stage products so check back often!)
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The Maker Movement Meets the VCs
"[The maker movement is] as significant as the shift from agriculture to the early industrial era." Jeremy Rifkin, Wharton economist. Bloomberg Business Week, 2/16/12
Why It's China's Turn to Worry about Manufacturing
"Artificial intelligence, robotics, and digital manufacturing . . . these technologies will make manufacturing more creative, less expensive, more local and more personal." 1/10/12
More than Just Digital Quilting
"The maker movement could change how science is taught and boost innovation. It may even herald a new industrial revolution." 12/3/11
Moving the Economy: The Future of the Maker Movement
"I'm motivated and moved by the idea, the belief-that the people who invent and build and make things have the power to change the world." TJ McCue, 10/26/11 Forbes Blog
Big DYI: The Year the Maker Movement Broke
"Between MakerBot, Adafruit, MakerSHED and SparkFun, that's well over tens of millions of revenue . . .it's a real industry now." Phillip Torrone, Adafruit. 8/6/11
Maker Faire and the Growth of Do-It-Yourself
"The movement that caught on in the garages and basements of California's Bay Area is showing signs of true financial power." Gwen Moran 10/25/11