The Hardware Innovation Workshop

The videos of the speakers at the Hardware Innovation Workshop have been posted recently. I thought I’d also post a some photos of the two day event for those who are thinking about going to the next one.

Held at the historic PARC headquarters, the Hardware Innovation Workshop was a series of talks set up by the publishers of Make Magazine. The attendees ranged from representatives from large established companies to folks in the DIY community.

Some really cool projects were showcased, I found out about some accelerator programs aimed at hardware startups (Bolt, PCH Accelerator), and was quite surprised by all the cool things Autodesk has to help individuals get stuff made. However, the best part of the Workshop was the people I met. The momentum behind hardware startups is building and everyone in attendance was truly excited to be pushing and helping each other forward in developing physical products. This was really one of the best conferences I’ve attended in a long time.

There were Great Speakers:

Massimo Banzi, Co-Founder of Arduino and Dale Dougherty of O’Reilly Media

Great Food:

Great Schwag:

Great stuff given away at the Hardware Innovation Workshop.

The tickets to the workshop also included two tickets to the Maker Faire in San Mateo.

Cellscope demo at Maker Faire

Some more photos of this excellent event in the gallery below, and a link to the Hardware Innovation Workshop videos.

: Discussing open source hardware

: Cable that allows you to connect to your iPhone without needing to register for the Made for iPod program. This will be great for prototyping if we decide to go into developing some appcessories.