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Re: Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

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Post by i-use-nixos-btw »

gizmo wrote: post #393
prettygood wrote: post #389

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That’s a pretty naive way to look at it. A lot of patented products have a positive impact on the world, should all of these be shared? What if a small player tries to break into a market with a nee solution? They should give away their IP to the big player purely because it has a positive impact on the world? Just because their product is more safe doesn’t mean they automatically have to share this with everyone. Th…

> A lot of patented products have a positive impact on the world, should all of these be shared? Yes. It’s bad to criminalize innovation. Most patentable innovations are not so unique but only a logical next step given prior inventions. Also, patents favor the big players in any market because they have the money and the will to grind down any newcomers with legal action. The upstart with fewer resources should alway…

Likewise, the big players in any field spend vast resources on R&D to produce the better products, and the patent is the only thing that makes that sustainable.

It’s all well and good wanting the world to be a safer place, but every company is beholden to its shareholders and debtors. Resources spent must be recovered or it all falls down.

Re: Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

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Post by ijustlovemath »

jablongo wrote: post #434
ijustlovemath wrote: post #426

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In addition to liver function, you can't always rely on patients to have glycogen stores to draw from. Additionally, dextrose is inexpensive, more available (rural county hospitals don't stock glucagon), easier to mix and store, has a longer shelf life, and most importantly, has a far quicker response time. Glucagon has promise for outpatient work, where the volume of fluid is much more of a factor, though the stabil…

Cool - check out my company: https://replica.health - We automatically log a bunch of data for diabetics based on things like activity and location, and provide an LLM powered search engine for that data. You can ask our system questions w/ natural language like "show me data about whenever I get low post-exercise". If theres any crossover, I'd love to chat about it.

I'm mostly curious about the modelling that goes on under the hood; are you just using deep learning, or also integrating something like UVA-Padova to fit your absorption curves?

Re: Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

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Post by digdugdirk »

paperfiber wrote: post #441

We are building a cyber foundry in Los Angeles to reshore American manufacturing. Using in-house composites, Rangeview 3D prints highly complex ceramic parts and pours molten metal into them autonomously. Our process can make components with material and geometric specifications no other metalic manufacturing process is capable of. We have worked with Rivian, Boeing, Airbus, and are aiming for military spares for pla…

Very cool. Are these investment casts? Or are they reusable?

Re: Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

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Post by aquaphile »

sitkack wrote: post #188
aquaphile wrote: post #23

We 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…

The strap is a single point of failure. Each mount should be attached to the seat brackets individually. Those brackets need to be braced and not just bolted through plywood. Having patents on innovations is necessary, but if you have innovations that will save kids lives, you should find a way to make those broadly usable by all. https://patents.google.com/patent/US10967762B2/en?oq=1096776... This this TOS usual for…

Any seat belt in an automobile is a single point of failure by your logic. Seat belts are fantastic tech, though. Seat belt webbing is designed to take 11,120 Newtons (FMVSS 209). Textile science is pretty cool.

Re: Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

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Post by PeterWhittaker »

naushit wrote: post #7
PeterWhittaker wrote: post #5

We have a unidirectional gateway with a complete protocol break. Sales are picking up. We’re hoping to deliver a guard later this year. Hardware may be hard, but what’s really hard are high assurance attack resistant systems.

is it cross domain solution?

It is. Supports file transfers (sftp push and pull), XML (basically file with schema validation, different filters on each side of the protocol break), and TCP and UDP steaming.

We’re proud of how fast it is, among other things.

Re: Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

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Post by alefil76 »

We are developing an innovative one-piece 3D printed travel guitar designed to fit into a suitcase while maintaining regular tuning. Our instrument incorporates a hollow neck acting as a resonance body, making it unique in the market. Unlike other guitars, our design eliminates the need for assembly before playing. However, this poses a significant challenge due to the immense tension it must withstand. You may check it at https://minicorda.com

Re: Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

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Post by PeterWhittaker »

applied_heat wrote: post #122
PeterWhittaker wrote: post #5

We have a unidirectional gateway with a complete protocol break. Sales are picking up. We’re hoping to deliver a guard later this year. Hardware may be hard, but what’s really hard are high assurance attack resistant systems.

What protocol? Control systems type stuff?

File and XML (file with schema validation) via sftp, and TCP and UDP streaming. In streaming mode, useful for getting logs, etc., from a SCADA network to a business mode. In block mode, handy for pushing patches the other way.

Among other things.

Re: Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

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Post by h317 »

passwert wrote: post #334
h317 wrote: post #11

We make edge AI cameras. After focusing on services for a while, it has been a different type of journey to switch to the product. We did an open source pilot product on esp32, and got surprisingly more interest than we thought, so now we are working on a high performance (4k, 60fps, AI chip) device. Lite-esp32 camera https://www.crowdsupply.com/maxlab/tokay-lite Source-code: https://github.com/maxlab-io/tokay-lite-p…

Could you please clarify what you mean by ‘AI’?

By "AI" here I mean cameras that support running machine vision models directly on the device. We provide the device and firmware, and then on the application and model level it is up to the user.

Re: Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

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Post by i-use-nixos-btw »

paperfiber wrote: post #441

We are building a cyber foundry in Los Angeles to reshore American manufacturing. Using in-house composites, Rangeview 3D prints highly complex ceramic parts and pours molten metal into them autonomously. Our process can make components with material and geometric specifications no other metalic manufacturing process is capable of. We have worked with Rivian, Boeing, Airbus, and are aiming for military spares for pla…

That sounds very cool.

I have to ask - do you build parts for your machines using your machines?

Re: Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

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Post by nosequel »

boxcardavin wrote: post #402
nosequel wrote: post #289

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You should track down the one-man team from the first DARPA Grand Challenge who made an autonomous motorcycle. I was on a team with a real truck, so I didn't have to figure out how to balance a two-wheeled vehicle while also trying to figure out how to autonomously make it through an obstacle course. From an insiders view, we all thought he was the star of the show.

This will sound like a joke, but that was Anthony Levandowski

Holy shit I never put that together. He was always just tinkering in his garage by himself as far as I remembered. We had a lot of bugs in our truck (like everyone) so we would get burned out and walk around and talk to each other. There was a lot of sharing with the smaller teams. Way later I realized I had a long conversation with Sebastian Thrun about how we did our throttle feedback actuator. He was lucky to have a drive-by-wire SUV and we were all mechanical. Those were super fun times hanging out at the raceway for trials those first two years.
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