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HWTrek Simplifies IoT Development and Manufacturing Supply Chain Collaboration

HWTrek Simplifies IoT Development and Manufacturing Supply Chain Collaboration

Seamless online collaboration tools accelerate product development and go-to-market San Francisco, Calif.—December 6, 2016—HWTrek (Hardware Trek), the global open innovation and collaboration platform for hardware creation, today announces a major update to its platform that adds cloud-based collaboration features to improve IoT manufacturing supply chain visibility and transparency — vertically, up and down the supply [...]

By William Albano|2016-12-06T21:01:50+00:00December 6th, 2016|Press Release|Comments Off

Interview with James Murphy, Co-Founder and General Manager at HLH Prototypes

Interview with James Murphy, Co-Founder and General Manager at HLH Prototypes

We caught up with an expert member of HWTrek's collaborative hardware development ecosystem community, James Murphy, who is Co-Founder and General Manager of Shenzhen-based HLH Prototypes Co., Ltd., to learn more about the company and the solutions they can provide hardware creators to assist in the development of their early stage projects. Can you tell us [...]

By William Albano|2016-11-26T23:11:52+00:00November 26th, 2016|Experts, Manufacturing|Comments Off

ARM mbed Connect – China (Shenzhen), December 5—Shaping the Future of IoT

ARM mbed Connect – China (Shenzhen), December 5—Shaping the Future of IoT

Our friends at ARM are launching a new event, ARM mbed Connect, next month in Shenzhen, China. HWTrek will attend the event. Stop by our exhibition table, we'd love to see you there. We have 50 VIP tickets for our community of experts, contact Rorschach Sun for more information (rorschach.sun [@] hwtrek.com) or Cindy Chen (cindy.chen [@] [...]

By William Albano|2016-11-14T15:35:04+00:00November 14th, 2016|Events|Comments Off

Demo with HWTrek at CES 2017

Demo with HWTrek at CES 2017

Are you a hardware developer looking for an opportunity to show off your device to an audience of thousands of people? Here's your chance. We are opening our space for you to show off the cool gadgets you’re working on. To apply, follow these steps: If your project is not yet on HWTrek platform, please sign up and [...]

By William Albano|2016-11-04T22:01:36+00:00November 4th, 2016|Events|Comments Off

Creator Profile: Federico Rodriguez, Founder of FRETX—now on Indiegogo

Creator Profile: Federico Rodriguez, Founder of FRETX—now on Indiegogo

We reached out to a participant in our second Asia Innovation Tour, Federico Rodriguez (Founder of FRETX) who joined the HWTrek Asia Innovation Tour, August 2015, to learn more about his project and his insights. FRETX launched its Indiegogo campaign on November 2, 2016. Over the course of the past two and a half years, HWTrek hosted 100 [...]

By William Albano|2016-11-02T23:11:11+00:00November 2nd, 2016|A/V IoT devices, Creators, Feature Story, IoT Case Studies|Comments Off

Interview with IDT—Oregon Scientific and the Oregon Air Smart Air Monitor

Interview with IDT—Oregon Scientific and the Oregon Air Smart Air Monitor

We interviewed a member of the HWTrek expert community, IDT, about their Oregon Air Smart Air Monitor, a product developed under their Oregon Scientific brand. IDT is an ODM/OEM provider of lifestyle products in three major product groups. They are experienced in areas of sensors, digital imaging, digital voice and music technology, smart home, and [...]

By William Albano|2016-10-18T22:01:34+00:00October 18th, 2016|Feature Story, Health and well-being, Health/Sport devices, IoT Case Studies|Comments Off

Interview with Narimasa Makino, CEO and Co-Founder of Makers Boot Camp

Interview with Narimasa Makino, CEO and Co-Founder of Makers Boot Camp

In advance of our next Asia Innovation Tour, we reached out to Narimasa Makino, CEO and Co-Founder of Makers Boot Camp based in Kyoto, Japan and a member of the expert community on the HWTrek platform. Makers Boot Camp is co-host of the Kyoto segment of the tour with HWTrek. Makino-san generously spared some time [...]

By William Albano|2016-10-11T23:59:19+00:00October 11th, 2016|Crowdfunding, Experts, Feature Story|Comments Off

Let’s meet at Hello Tomorrow. Or in Hong Kong, London, and Berlin.

Let’s meet at Hello Tomorrow. Or in Hong Kong, London, and Berlin.

Join us at Hello Tomorrow this week in Paris, France. HWTrek's CEO Lucas Wang will be taking part in a workshop panel on October 13 at 1:15-3:30 PM on the Interactive Breakout Stage 1. The workshop topic is "Breeding a Hardware Startup." In addition to Lucas, the workshop features panelists from HAX, Central Research Laboratory [...]

By William Albano|2016-10-11T17:55:36+00:00October 11th, 2016|Events|Comments Off

Makuake crowdfunding platform eases Japan market entry for global hardware companies

Our friends at Business Next published an article about Ryotaro Nakayama's (CEO of Makuake) appearance at an event while he recently visited Taiwan. Tokyo-based Makuake, a subsidiary of CyberAgent, is one of the top crowdfunding platforms in Japan. Unlike other sites, Makuake specializes in physical products from IoT devices to consumer electronics, fashion to food created [...]

By William Albano|2016-10-06T17:17:53+00:00October 6th, 2016|Crowdfunding, Feature Story|Comments Off

Genius of Murata’s strategy: Norio Nakajima on wireless, sensors, batteries, IoT

Noria Nakajima - Photo courtesy of EE Times - Source “IoT isn’t a market. It’s a phenomenon.” - Norio Nakajima, EE Times, August 8, 2016 Junko Yoshida, Chief International Correspondent for EE Times, published an excellent interview of Norio Nakajima, executive vice president of Kyoto-based Murata Manufacturing Co. responsible for the communication and [...]

By William Albano|2016-10-04T22:01:43+00:00October 4th, 2016|Experts, Feature Story, Solutions|Comments Off

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