Took me awhile to remember what it was called, but TinyPilot [^0] by mtlynch is pretty cool. Michael sometimes writes about running a hardware business on his blog [^1]. Not exactly a startup, but a small business. [^0]: https://tinypilotkvm.com [^1]: https://mtlynch.io/posts
Is TinyPilot hardware - it looks more like software?
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#82We're building Volition [1] to organize the world's mechanical components for MechEs, roboticists, mfg. techs, and beyond. Imagine McMaster-like UI quality, but ultimately across every good OEM / distributor.
I previously built Plethora (automated CNC machining) and am happy to help all hardware / manufacturing startup folks. Please feel free to reach out.
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#83I am making and selling an eink smart screen. It can display a google calendar. You can also point it to any url that serves an image. Is it okay to post a link? https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale... I am planning to release more applications for it and I am opening the platform for 3rd party applications.
Give it Home Assistant integration, or at least MQTT control, and I'd buy at least one
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd love to get this but for iCal display. Any chance that's in the cards in the future?
It’s in the cards, pretty high in the stack, but I never make promises. If you can write code and you don’t want to wait for me to add it to the default calendar app, you can build it and release it as a 3rd party app: https://github.com/Invisible-Computers/image-gallery/blob/ma...
Got it. I'm not the right person to build this functionality so I'll just wait to see if it comes and buy later if so!
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#85Working solo on building an Android-compatible device, coming from a pure-software background. It's certainly a different world than the OSS community and available resources there, but the homebrew/hobbyist scene seems to have made a number of things more accessible over the past few years.
I'm struggling with how to put an Android-compatible board together with just the peripherals I want (similar to a Pi but slimmed down), and lining up suppliers/manufacturers who can put it together.
Looking for help/guidance on people familiar with any aspects of this!
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#86https://darkhive.ai small uncrewed aerial systems for public safety. Other companies still dominate the market and for good reason. We aim to bring US-made equipment that is competitive and affordable.
Let me know if you need someone to test in a high heat environment and give you product feedback.
I am on the UAS committee for a large city (1.6m+ people with 13k+ employees) and its amazing how many us-based companies don't take into account how hot it can be in the desert. I recently saw a vendor who needed to redesign/change their batteries and motors because of it.
As some unsolicited advice, if you aren't working to get on the DIU Blue list [1], I highly recommend it. Many if not most public safety agencies are using that to make purchasing decisions.
I have been sounding the alarm on how DJI is likely going to get banned at some point with all the trade shenanigans going on, but many of the US based companies just aren't as operator friendly.
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#87I work in what used to be an EDA startup
Now it was acquired by a big one though
Not really hardware but almost
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#88We're working on "life support systems" for algae photobioreactors. This includes monitoring the health of the algae, monitoring and controlling the environment to optimise algae growth, providing feedback to users on growth and experiment progress, and uploading data to our own cloud. We're more software than hardware, but without the hardware capability we wouldn't have been able to attempt it. Previously we tried…
Do you recall the game(?) 'LIGHT BRIGHT'
Which consisted of a black-cardboard-paper with a pattern on it connect-the-dots-style - and you would plug into each 'dot' a plastic pin, then it would light-up at you would see the pattern/design in full form?
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Imagine your xmas trees as a grid of LEDs and they are pressable/de-pressable (toggle) and kids can draw out a pattern, then have the machine animate the pattern in certain ways... as it understands the intent of the drawing as being a car/tree/person/animal whatever...
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looks neat, is your core product the AI for the construction site object detection?
We make the whole camera system because we couldn't find anything on the market that allowed us to do the AI we wanted. The value for the customer is all in the AI tracking and security detection as well as the ability to just login live and see what's happening on site. So, yes, our core product is our software, but we had to make the hardware to capture market share.
Your website shows OEM cameras and an off the shelf plastic enclosure, along with basic LED floodlights. What hardware are you making? Not saying your product isn't cool, just not clear what hardware you are "making" vs. assembling.
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#90We make a system for assisting self-evacuation from tunnels using directional sound effects: https://norphonic.com/products/evacsound/ Most of the userspace work including the planner, fire detection, resource scheduling and distributed execution is done in Common Lisp.
uhm, I need to introduce you to someone, who has developed this into a patented delivery via a baseball cap (hat) bill with directional indicators via LED to give you wayfinding HUD without a screen....