As Oculus Rift, Jawbone, and Spark have increased the stature of hardware startups over the past several years, a dizzying number of resources have sprung up to support new ventures. In the no-nonsense “Hardware Incubators, The Guide,” now available as an eBook, MakingSociety founder Mathilde Berchon sifts through the specific spaces now available to hardware entrepreneurs. “I wrote it with one […]
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The Business of Making is a core value track for MakerCon, the only conference by and for leaders of the Maker Movement. MakerCon exists to celebrate and share information among leading Makers — and developing products, manufacturing them, and getting through distribution mazes are key to the experience. With that in mind, there are many […]
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The Onion Omega, a promising open hardware development platform, blew through its Kickstarter goal this week, where its promise to make hardware development easy for software developers seemed to resonate with backers. “We are strong believers of open source and we strive to give back to the open source community,” wrote the Onion Omega team. “All hardware schematics, […]
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Exceptional Hardware Software Meeting #2, aka EHSM, has issued a call for proposals in preparation of their June convention. This time it’s held in a particle physics laboratory!
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O’Reilly, MAKE’s original parent company, has announced Solid, a hardware and software conference to be held next May in San Francisco.
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UIST (the ACM Symposium on User Inerface Software and Technology) is holding a Student Innovation Contest available for students ranging from high school to Ph. D.: The goal of the contest is to innovate new interactions on state-of-the-art hardware. We give you the hardware, and you show us what you can do. Contestants will demo […]
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Figuring out how much to charge for your product is the second most common question entrepreneurs ask themselves. The first is of course…”what should I build in the first place.” Assuming you’ve made it past the first question and there is a market for your product, you have to figure out how to price your product. I reached out to several entrepreneurs for real world examples you can use for your hardware startup.
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