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How To Build A Hardware Startup

A complete guide from idea to market fit.

This guide includes a series of lessons to help you understand your purpose, identify the right market, build a great product, and successfully bring it to market. This is for anyone that wants to turn their idea into a real company.

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Standalone AVR Chip Programmer

Program without a computer for speed!

Instead of having a computer that talks thru the Arduino to a chip for programming, instead the Arduino itself programs the chip. This means you can program chips without having a computer involved. The good news about this technique is that it is incredibly fast, you can program chips 10x faster than with a computer and without having to type anything in.

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Shop Tips & Tricks

Making manufacturing easy

This guide is a series of manufacturing notes. This is where you will find all the stuff we've learned in our short time of running a company, manufacturing in-house electronics and basically having a good time.

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How To Start A Hackerspace: The List

The List: The Essential Hackerspace Checklist

This document is "The List" - it is the direct result of the overwhelming interest in starting Hackerspaces that hit my inbox after co-founding PSOne and HacDC. When so many people asked for help with the very basics of starting and running a successful Hackerspace, I compiled this list to make it as easy as possible for potential Hackerspace founders to hit the ground running (and not forget anything important). Since then, “the list” has been distributed and shared within Hackerspace culture. It has helped with structuring the success of many Hackerspaces - and hopefully with this update and public release, it will serve as a handy go-to checklist for your awesome Hackerspace-to-be.

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KTOWN's Ultimate Creating Parts in Eagle Tutorial

Listen up! KTOWN is going to school you right in EagleCAD!

Creating parts in Eagle isn't difficult, but you do need to understand a few things about how Eagle organizes things internally. This tutorial will walk you through everything you need to know to start making reliable, manufacturable parts today!

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Eagle Tutorial - How to add a new package to a component

Save time by re-using existing packages and symbols

This little tutorial will show you how to create a new package for an existing device. It's not a beginner tutorial so you'll have to learn how to use Eagle first, but its one of those skills that can save you tons of time

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How To Start A Hackerspace: Money and Resources

Fuel For Your Fire

If you want a hackerspace where everyone can pull off capers, kickass projects and work on epic (or dorky) hacks, you're going to need the cash to make it happen - all while keeping the lights on at the same time.

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How to Make a Pogo Pin Test Jig

Get jiggy!

If you end up buying a pick and place to assemble PCBs (or even if you're doing it by hand) you'll need to test out your boards! If you have an assembler do it for you, its still probably a good idea to have a jig you can give them. A good jig will tell you whats going right and whats going wrong. In this tutorial I will show how I designed a very basic jig with a "tested good" audible indicator. The board its testing is very simple but the basic premise can be expanded to large projects with ease.

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Creating Accurate Footprints in Eagle

A guide to making footprints in Eagle that accurately reflect the mechanical outline of your parts

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SMT Manufacturing

Our mods, hacks, tips and tricks for SMT manufacturing.

Here are a bunch of tutorials for manufacturing small to medium scale (10 - 10,000) piece surface mount electronics.

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Barcode Scanner

Zebra vision

This mini tutorial will cover how we use barcode scanners. This isn't necessarily an Arduino project, but it is a tool that we use every day when shipping packages - instead of entering in invoice numbers, we use a barcode scanner.

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Digital Shipping Scales

Digital Scales

This tutorial will cover digital shipping scales! I know, exciting, right? But really, if you need to sense weights and get them into a computer or microcontroller, these are really easy to find, fairly accurate and easy to use.