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Brady Forrest stopped by Seattle a couple of weeks ago to give an informal overview of PCH’s new hardware accelerator program, Highway1. They are also this month’s meetup sponsor.
In case you missed it, the program offers hardware startups seed funding of…
We had a Hack Things Meetup at Synapse today with a great turnout (~90 people), and two nice presentations followed by Q&A. Thanks to Synapse for hosting and to Highway1 for sponsoring the event!
Skooks Pong from Synapse gave a talk about…
Hack music much? Travis Feldman (of HAXLR8R company Molecule Synth and a speaker at a prior Hack Things meetup in June) has launched another Kickstarter for BPOW: Battery Powered Orchestra Workshop, a 2-day interactive festival (August 10th and 11th in Portland, Oregon)…
With self-driving cars already on the way, it’s conceivable that someday soon all commercial flights will be piloted by computers. If you read the news about drones, then you’re likely to imagine a future where Predator-like drones flown by the NSA keep…
If you’re hacking Arduino and the phone in your pocket is an Android, then check out Annikken Andee. It looks super compelling.
Annikken Andee is an Indiegogo project that’s close to funded and promises to offer a convenient link between Arduino projects…
Over the last 15 years as music has gone completely digital, we have (for the most part) left behind the richness and quality of analog audio equipment in favor of the convenience of iPods. Thanks to the ubiquity of smart phones, there…
We love artful hacks: projects that mix bits and atoms in ways that connect with people on a more personal and artful level.
Super Awesome Sylvia’s WaterColorBot that we wrote about last week is one, and the Choosatron is another. They launched…
You might already know that most modern cars have an OBD-II port designed for repair technicians but which provides a wealth of information to hackers such as engine speed, steering angle, RPMs and fuel level. Martin O’Hanlon ** posted about a project…
The next Hack Things meetup is coming up on August 2nd, 12-2pm. It will be at Synapse, which is a larger venue than we’ve had in the past.
We have a great lineup with (1) Skooks Pong, SVP of technology at Synapse…
The inaugural Startup Weekend Maker Edition took place this weekend, with around 75 participants joining from all around the Pacific Northwest and as far away as Taiwan to pitch their ideas, form teams and 3d-print, soldier, mill and glue their way to…
