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mwoodworth

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About mwoodworth

cofounder YC W11 Upverter

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    Comment #9006650

    They also are working on getting the tools that you need to design your prototype. Like Upverter (YCW2011) ( https://upverter.com/ ) for designing your PCB.

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    Comment #8330592

    Hey Pinkyand, Already up and running, here is an example https://upverter.com/Willian/5836a558aea96a1b/Arduino-Due-Sh...

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    Comment #5152999

    OK, I am all for people coming from out of town! It would be great to get people form all over. For example, We at Upverter are Coming from Toronto, Canada! If you shoot us an emai…

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    Comment #5147533

    Unfortunately for this one we are only accepting people that are going to be able to be there in person. For the next one we do, we will try to incorporate remote participants.

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    Comment #5138300

    Yes you can participate on your own. We have found that most of the time groups do better, but there are one person armies also work sometimes! We will not out you either, we are g…

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    Comment #5138070

    You are allowed to build and prepare before hand. The Idea is to get a bunch of smart interesting people together in a room, make cool thing and have fun. I would guess by looking …

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    Comment #5137998

    The deadline to apply is the 7th of February (that is so we can get back to everyone on the 8th). Although I always liked the YC let people apply late model, We Expect it to be a f…

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    Comment #5137070

    a little more on the analog design end, but I like: The Art of Electronics by Horowitz & Hill Integrated Electronics by Millman and Halkias (There was allegedly a newer edition pub…

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    Comment #5136913

    You should apply, but make sure you say what you experience is (in electronics and anything else that you do). We will take a look at the makeup of the applicants and see if we can…

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    Comment #5136772

    The Basics: We are designing hardware (schematics, pcb layout, even the software and mechanical drawings if that is what you want to build), and doing it in 12 hours. You can apply…

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    Comment #3545949

    The best advice I think you can get is: Get an alpha in other people's hands to test out. feedback on a pseudo working alpha is much more valuable than feedback on theory. Get your…

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    Comment #3545779

    Upverter was in the YC class that started in Jan 2011.

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    Comment #3545647

    I like that idea, putting it on the whiteboard. I really thing that having a way to get help from the community would help all designers.

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    Comment #3545628

    I think he might have been a little upset when he wrote it.

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    Comment #3545073

    we would love to chat with you about what you need it to do! shoot us an email @ support. p.s. I am one of the founder of Upverter

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    Comment #3170833

    Thanks, We are using hardware because we are trying to enable making. Electronics is really near to our hearts, and a really big part of the way that we "make", so this is where we…

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    Comment #3170791

    we are working on it, are you looking for export of previous version of full file, or the exporting of the diffs?

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    Comment #3170395

    Thanks tonyarkles, we thought that doing a rotate twice would solve that, but with op-amps a mirror might look better, I will add it to our to-do list.

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