MakingSociety Pocast: Recent Episodes
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Andrew from littleBits contacted me a few weeks ago to tell me about the bitLab, a new program to support littleBits contributors that he has been putting up together. I really liked the idea and after a few discussions I offered to do a special bitLab week here on MakingSociety to describe the program in details […]
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MakingSociety Podcast is back with a new interview to help you start and run your open hardware company. And… this new episode features a 40 minutes interview with SparkFun CEO Nathan Seidle! Nathan started SparkFun 12 years ago while studying electrical engineering. Since then, company grew to become the most successful open source hardware company to […]
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Red Pitaya is a young hardware company coming from Slovenia in East Europe. For the last years, the team has been working on a very clever product. A device that replaces tens of expensive scientific tools. It’s called Red Pitaya and is a science researcher and electronics engineer dream. Red Pitaya can be a measurement tool, […]
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Time for episode number 6 of the MakingSociety Podcast, where I interview hardware business experts and founders. In this new episode, I interview Bibi Nelson, co-founder of Bare Conductive. Bare Conductive is this company based in the UK who created makers’ favorite Electric Paint, a pen that draws conductive ink. Team managed to create not […]
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MakingSociety Podcast is back with a new episode. Today, Sally Carson tells the story of how she and Eric Jennings created Pinoccio, open source tiny wireless controller for the Internet of Things. Their story is a great example of how makers can now build successful niche products using crowdfunding, grass-root marketing and online tools. What I like in […]
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Episode #4 is with Emile Petrone, founder and CEO of Tindie. We talk about lean hardware startups, pro makers building small companies and the Tindie community. You will learn about makers who are selling their products online and some of the strategies they adopt to find customers and manufacture their products. Emile talks about Tindie […]
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I find it really hard to get information about manufacturing. There are not many resource out there for the hardware entrepreneur. Continuing my goal to help makers building their hardware company, I contacted Scott Miller from Dragon Innovation who accepted to answer my (many) questions for the MakingSociety Podcast. Scott Miller has been bringing products […]
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In this second episode of the MakingSociety podcast, I interview Nick Pinkston, community-builder and hardware entrepreneur who played a key role at building the hardware community in Pittsburgh and the San Francisco Bay Area. I met Nick almost two years ago when he had just moved to San Francisco. Since then, I have seen him […]
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I’m very happy to announce today that the first session of the MakingSociety podcast is now online! It’s about 40 minutes packed with advice, tips and resources to help you launch your open hardware business. The unique goal of the monthly MakingSociety podcast is to help you go from maker to entrepreneur. We cover topics […]
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