Teardown Session 41: live from Circuit Launch
Shout out to this week's sponsor, Qorvo and thier RF Accelerator program: https://www.crowdsupply.com/qorvo/rf-...!
In this session, Crowd Supply's Helen Leigh will be streaming live from the Circuit Launch co-working space in Oakland, CA. Join us to tour the space and hear from some of the awesome hardware creators working there. There will be robots!
Don't miss this livestream, Helen will be giving away a CaribouLite SDR!
About Circuit Launch
Circuit Launch exists because of a fundamental shift in rules about where you should locate your electronic hardware business. Until recently, companies felt pressured to move their operations to a foreign production center... Fortunately, conditions have changed. Rapid advancement of micromanufacturing equipment means that prototyping, testing and small run production can now be done in-house. And for mass production, the world’s best suppliers and manufacturers are establishing local offices at the various centers of innovation and capital. Production is no longer the primary driver of your company’s location.
Without the oversized emphasis on production, location choice can focus on other metrics: availability of talent, access to capital, cultures of innovation, connections to transportation, shared infrastructure, business climate, lifestyle, and more. The Silicon Valley / San Francisco region is a world leader in the metrics important to Tech companies, and it is home to Circuit Launch.
Circuit Launch leverages the advantages of our location for our members, including the diverse ecosystem of suppliers, manufacturers, and investors. Variety and choice are a part of our ethos. Our community is open; we believe there is no one right supplier, manufacturer, or investor for everyone. Our community is mixed; we serve both startup and established companies. And finally, our community isn’t created by equity participation; we are a pure service provider, exclusively focused on the electronic hardware industry.
[Source: https://www.circuitlaunch.com/about.html]
Key Moments
00:23 Crowd Supply News and What's New
02:25 Shout out to Qorvo, this session's sponsor!
03:26 Introducing Circuit Launch and some of its denizens
04:18 Circuit Launch is not an incubator
06:12 Coming Soon: a new 50k square-foot San Francisco maker space!
07:44 A badge that's also a Matchbox car
09:15 Brickbreakers tearer downers
10:30 Some ancestral Ataris
12:20 A look at the Ubo "Smart Edge Pod"
15:20 A SiFive chip project
16:41 Miniaturized radio at 40,000 feet
20:04 An automated weather balloon launcher
23:43 Resources for wild balloon hunting
28:16 Ubo on Hackster
30:03 A walk around the Circuit Launch space
32:57 Automated microscopes from Labsmore; a midi-guitar tech stack
35:10 The main event space and robot racecar track
37:38 A robot bartender and other demos
39:50 A red TARDIS?!
40:20 A remote Spot-bot; workspaces; VR weightlifting; a robot box stacker
45:53 Carbon fiber 3D printer (drool)
47:01 Sewing lab; laser-cut boomboxes
49:10 Prize giveaway!
49:30 Midi guitar demo
52:51 Robot tribute wall
54:08 Telepresence robotics
54:11 Teardown 2024 announcement and details (calling all hacker spaces!)
57:38 Hitch a ride on the Circuit Launch Space Shuttle
Links & Resources
Qorvo: https://www.qorvo.com/
Circuit Launch: https://www.circuitlaunch.com/
Teardown 2024: https://www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/...
CaribouLite on Crowd Supply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/cariboula...
Qorvo RF Accelerator: https://www.crowdsupply.com/qorvo/rf-...
Bay Area High Altitude Radio Ballooning: https://sf-hab.org/
Sonde Hub: https://sondehub.org/#!mt=Mapnik&mz=5...
Ubo on Hackster: mhttps://www.hackster.io/news/mehrdad-...
Labsmore microscopes: https://www.labsmore.com/
About the Teardown Sessions
Welcome to The Teardown Sessions, a series of interviews and hands-on learning sessions with Crowd Supply creators, staff, and lots of special guests. Crowd Supply is the crowdfunding platform of choice for engineers, hackers, designers, and idealists. We help them with the funding and support they need to deliver respectful, thoughtfully crafted, open source hardware to their delighted backers.
Come on by and see what our creators are making: https://www.crowdsupply.com.
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