I recently connected with Brandon Huang at SILITECH Technology to learn more about the company’s technology, solutions, and how they work with IoT hardware device innovators to get their products designed and manufactured. Please introduce yourself. I am Brandon Huang, Director of Technology Application and Support at SILITECH Technology Corporation. I am responsible for forecasting needs, requirements, [...]
With a strong developer community of over 230,000 developers, ARM® mbed™ offers a cutting edge IoT operating system, plus the tools and cloud services to make IoT solutions possible combined. The ARM mbed IoT Device Platform, a solution featured on the HWTrek platform, includes the mbed Developer Community, mbed OS, mbed Cloud, mbed Device Server, mbed Device Connector Service, mbed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We were excited to meet the wonderful hardware company participants—from startups and established small and medium-sized businesses (SMB)—that joined us on Asia Innovation Tour 2016 in Shenzhen and Beijing this past April, our third tour, and to learn more about the cool smart, connected devices that they are creating. During the tour we visited factories, [...]
We reached out to a Creator and Expert on the HWTrek platform to learn more about how they are using or creating for Autodesk Fusion 360. Autodesk Fusion 360 is a cloud-based CAD/CAM tool for collaborative product development. Fusion 360 combines very fast and easy organic modeling with precise solid modeling, allowing you to make [...]
In the evolution of wearable device chipsets, there are generally three types: Mobile chipsets: early on existing mobile chipsets were used to develop products. For example, Samsung Galaxy Gear used Exynos 4212, Google Glass used OPAP 4430. The advantage is an effective use of an existing platform with rich features. Microcontroller (MCU) based products: such [...]
2015 was a great year for HWTrek. We raised a Series A round of funding. We opened our Shenzhen office. We’ve more than doubled our team. We brought an awesome group of 30 hardware creators and accelerators from around the world to Taiwan, Beijing, and Shenzhen to meet 500 manufacturing and supply chain experts. We took [...]
We were excited to meet the wonderful hardware startup participants that joined us on Asia Tour 2015 in Taipei, Beijing, and Shenzhen (August 16-24) and to learn more about the cool smart, connected devices that they are creating. During the tour we visited factories, including tier one manufacturers, leading eCommerce and IT brands, incubators, and [...]