HIW13

Pitches with Prototypes: LumiGeek’s LED4DIY Shields

Pitches with Prototypes: LumiGeek’s LED4DIY Shields

Number four in our daily line-up of Hardware Innovation Workshop prototype contest entries is the LumiGeek LED4DIY family of RGB LED control shields. LumiGeek recently made a big splash, online, for their part in the collaboration (with Autodesk engineers Arthur Harsuvanakit and Evan Atherton) that produced this beautiful one-off 3D-printed sound/light reactive speaker set:

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Maker Pro “Master Class” With Bunnie Huang

Maker Pro “Master Class” With Bunnie Huang

This month’s Hardware Innovation Workshop (May 14-15) offers an impressive line-up of speakers, presentations, workshops, and product demos all aimed at showcasing innovation and the maker ecosystem–fundraising, strategic partners, technology, and manufacturing options. If you’re involved in the business of making, the Hardware Innovation Workshop is a one-of-a kind event. But if you can’t make it to both days, there’s a special a la carte option featuring Bunny Huang.

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Pitches with Prototypes: FoldiMate Laundry Robot

Pitches with Prototypes: FoldiMate Laundry Robot

Continuing our run-up coverage to MAKE’s 2013 Hardware Innovation Workshop is number three in our “pitches with prototypes” contest: the FoldiMate 5000 Alpha laundry-folding robot from co-founders Gal Rozov, Dr. Ted Selker, and Robert Ford.

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Pitches with Prototypes: Open Clock Project

Pitches with Prototypes: Open Clock Project

Next in our run-up coverage for the MAKE 2013 Hardware Innovation Workshop is Craig Bonsignore’s Open Clock Project. Bonsignore is a biomedical engineer with more than fifteen years of experience designing, developing, and analyzing cardiovascular implants. And he’s fed up with badly designed alarm clocks.

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Pitches with Prototypes: Falkor Systems’ Pet AR.Drone

Pitches with Prototypes: Falkor Systems’ Pet AR.Drone

In the run-up to the Hardware Innovation Workshop (May 14-15), we’ll be introducing aspiring companies and makers competing in the “pitches with prototypes” contest. First up is Falkor System’s Pet AR. Drone. The product is still in development, but CEO Sameer Parekh imagines it as a personal drone for extreme sports photography. Doing a little BASE jumping? Let your drone follow you down while the camera rolls. He calls it “out of body” recording.

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