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What’s Next in the Hardware Revolution

What’s Next in the Hardware Revolution

By Scott N. Miller

Scott N. Miller

Scott N. Miller, CEO/Co-Founder, Dragon Innovation

Scott has been fascinated with hardware since he was old enough to hold a screwdriver. He worked on a robotic tuna fish at MIT, life-size robotic dinosaurs for Disney Imagineering, and robotic baby dolls with Hasbro prior to joining iRobot where he was responsible for leading the Roomba team to scale the functional prototype to high volume product of the first 3 million units.

Since founding Dragon Innovation, Scott has enjoyed working with hundreds of companies to provide expertise from DFM to factory selection through project management and sustaining engineering.

Scott received his Bachelors from Dartmouth and Masters from MIT.

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We’re now entering what we think of as “Phase 2” of the Hardware Revolution, where the bar is much higher for design, customer experience, quality, and overall usefulness of product.

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Maker Pro News: How Embracing Creativity Can Kickstart Your Startup

Maker Pro News: How Embracing Creativity Can Kickstart Your Startup

By Jon Christian

Jon Christian

Jon Christian is the co-editor of the Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection between makers and business. He's also written for the Boston Globe, WIRED and The Atlantic.

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By DC Denison

DC Denison

DC Denison is the co-editor of The Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection of makers and business. That means hardware startups, new products, and market trends.

DC manages customer stories at Acquia, the digital experience company.

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Also inside: how your business can lean into a holiday like Halloween.

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Dragon Innovation Announces “Seal of Approval” Program for Crowdfunding Hopefuls

Dragon Innovation Announces “Seal of Approval” Program for Crowdfunding Hopefuls

By Jenn Nowicki

Jenn Nowicki

As an athlete with a neuro-astro-legal background, my writing interests involve just about everything. Current hobbies include kickboxing, Netflix binge-watching, and concocting the perfect mac n' cheese recipe.

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Dragon Innovation, which has worked with the wildly successful businesses Pebble, Coolest Cooler, and BlueSmart to estimate the actual costs of bringing their crowdfunded products to market, is expanding its offerings with Dragon Certified, a program to give companies a financial “seal of approval” before a crowdfunding campaign even begins. “What we saw all the […]

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How VCs Look at the Maker Market

How VCs Look at the Maker Market

By Andrew Terranova

Andrew Terranova

Andrew Terranova is an electrical engineer, writer and author of How Things Are Made: From Automobiles to Zippers. Andrew is also an electronics and robotics enthusiast and has created and curated robotics exhibits for the Children's Museum of Somerset County, NJ and taught robotics classes for the Kaleidoscope Enrichment in Blairstown, NJ and for a public primary school. Andrew is always looking for ways to engage makers and educators.

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VC have a role in the maker market. Investors bring more than their money to the table. Business relationships and experience to advise a new CEO can be a major advantage for a hardware start-up if they find the right investor for them.

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Grab one of the First 1,000 Origami Folded Robots

Grab one of the First 1,000 Origami Folded Robots

By Andrew Terranova

Andrew Terranova

Andrew Terranova is an electrical engineer, writer and author of How Things Are Made: From Automobiles to Zippers. Andrew is also an electronics and robotics enthusiast and has created and curated robotics exhibits for the Children's Museum of Somerset County, NJ and taught robotics classes for the Kaleidoscope Enrichment in Blairstown, NJ and for a public primary school. Andrew is always looking for ways to engage makers and educators.

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Dash Robotics launches a fundraising campaign at Dragon Innovation for their bio-inspired origami folded robot.

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Dragon Innovation Hardware Crowdfunding Site Goes Live

Dragon Innovation Hardware Crowdfunding Site Goes Live

By DC Denison

DC Denison

DC Denison is the co-editor of The Maker Pro Newsletter, which covers the intersection of makers and business. That means hardware startups, new products, and market trends.

DC manages customer stories at Acquia, the digital experience company.

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A new hardware crowdfunding site, Dragon Innovation, first announced a few weeks ago, is now live. Eight hardware campaigns are already off and running.

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First Look: Javascript Microcontrollers for Web Developers

First Look: Javascript Microcontrollers for Web Developers

By Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan

Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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Right now there are two new micro-controller boards seeking funding—one on Kickstarter, and the other on Dragon Innovation’s new crowdfunding platform—that are slightly different. These boards aren’t just yet another Arduino clone, or yet another possible “Raspberry Pi killer.” These two boards, the Tessel from technical.io and the Espruino from Pur3, intend to take the path least travelled and co-op an existing community not traditionally associated with the maker community.

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