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Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?
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#312Hardware is hard:founding hardware engineer, we were acquired 4 years ago by a corporate. We place WiFi sensors around your network that behave like typical clients. We report on user experience and show when there are issues in your network. WiFi technician in a box. The fact that it’s subscription based is what made us float. The initial capital outlay, supply chain, compliance and design work is so funding intensi…
A brother needs a link.
Are you able to roam/hand off between APs and measure the reassociation time? That would address a monitoring need I have right now.
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#313We're building a closed loop artificial pancreas (think dialysis but for blood sugar) for hospital use -- the first of its kind in the US. There's a massive unmet need; all critical care patients, and all people with diabetes in the hospital could benefit. Studies have shown you can achieve a 30% reduction in mortality, and 25% reduction in length of stay, in addition to the hours per day you save nurses from managin…
Can you tell me the difference between your product on the types of prescription cgm + insulin pump combos like dexcom/tandem which offer some level insulin control? I'm just curious. I run an xDrip set up and I've played around with a couple of the "DIY" closed loop setups.
Hey, my wife has diabetes, and she's had really awful luck with automated blood sugar monitors. Somehow their readings are always off by insane amounts vs a finger poke
Have you done much research into that area? Do you know if there's a brand we should check out or any common gotchas? (I can't find much reasonable info on this online due to my poor Google skills and all the bad info out there..)
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#314Worked on this hardware startup from 2011-2015: http://VOXON.co - a volumetric 3D display company.
We went through the Microsoft Accelerator for Kinect powered by Techstars 2012 in Seattle. It was very hard to find investors, mentors, and partners for hardware at the time.
That said - building the technology from the ground up and seeing how much people loved it - I’ve never been more proud to be apart of a project. We were doing something really hard - but together we built exactly what we said we’d make.
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#315I think it would be nice if someone made a high-performance ASIC specifically for tinygrad.
Would this be similar to the Google's Coral Edge accelerators?
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#316We make the world's best baby car seats. https://www.kioma.us Fatherly Magazine calls it "The Car Seat of the Future". It's been crash tested, flight inversion tested, flammability tested and mom tested. It is full of patented innovations to make kids safer and parenting more enjoyable. It required lots of material science, production techniques, supply chain adjustments, and a surprising amount of software (to model…
There's zero videos on your website, and zero videos of it on youtube. As someone in the market for this that's the first thing I checked. Get some videos up on Tiktok as well!
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#317Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok, I'll bite. I don't want to expose my child to exotic glues, adhesives, PFAS, or any other foreign molecules in their car seat. How does your product stack up?
Exotic glues? Foreign molecules? I wonder. Are you aware that keeping your living space exquisitely clean compromises the development of a childs immune system?
I don't think the human immune system develops against offgassing like it does pathogens
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#318I work on software at a hardware startup that is designing and manufacturing a next-generation electrolysis plant for the production of green hydrogen. My personal experience has led me to believe that opportunities to participate meaningfully in climate tech are exclusively available at hardware companies. Anyone attempting to solve climate change with software is at best skimming value off of the work being done by…
> Anyone attempting to solve climate change with software is at best skimming value off of the work being done by others in the physical world With respect - I bet a dollar that the folk at Zoom have done more to reduce automotive pollution than your startup. No hardware startup could have enabled WFH in the absence of calendar, messaging & video conference software.
This is a fantastic point, but Zoom would never have been a candidate for me personally for several reasons:
- As important as reducing our use of fossil fuels is, using less energy is not a solution to the problem of a non-renewable energy system. In that sense, it wouldn't meet the criteria for someone who wants to work on a climate solution.
- While WFH drastically reduces auto emissions, it increases gas & electricity use in the home.
- Zoom is not a mission-driven company and (to my knowledge) their KPIs are not directed at or correlated with their GHG footprint; I would think they see themselves as productivity software, not climate software.
- If Zoom never existed we would be working from home at the same rate, using any of hundreds of other video conferencing apps. In carbon offset terms, their impact does not provide additionality.
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#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if there would be a market for in-built hard modular mount points for the back seats. Like, let's say I'm Tesla. I build in mount points for the back seats. And then I sell accessories for the mounts. Tesla branded baby seats. Child seats. Storage/shelf solutions. Dog cages. Pizza delivery rack. Who even knows how many things one could put back there
Like isofix? I think even Teslas have that. Or do I misunderstand?
Your Tesla manual may call it Latch (the US version of EU's Isofix). Same thing but different name.
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#320Not a hardware startup per-se, but we are ex-satellite engineers who out if frustration with available tooling have developed the engineering software every hardware engineer deserves: https://www.valispace.com Also just released the first hardware engineering ai assistant: https://youtu.be/uLEOPpqiUok
OP said “hardware”.
This is meaningfully hardware adjacent, stop being a stick in the mud.