Podcasts about lockitron

I've recently interviewed Finbarr Watterson, Hardware Community Evangelist at Fictiv, from the Bay Area, USA. His company is all into helping you iterate on your early product versions faster and with high quality. Fin has been entrenched in the manufacturing industry for over 5 years living in both Shenzhen, China and the San Francisco Bay Area. He works closely with the hardware community to create content and events that help engineers and designers to build better hardware. Fictiv is a pretty interesting company - I wish they were also outside the Bay Area. They provide very short lead-times for orders for parts that are 3D printed or CNC-machined. We discussed many topics in this interview, their vision, mission, some examples of hardware startups, such as Lockitron's mistake in the early phase they learned from, their experience with validating their product with customers and how they scaled production from manufacturing a few units to mass-manufacturing in China. We discussed Fictiv's business model, their services related to rapid prototyping that makes them different from their competitors, how they bootstrapped their company using an MVP or Minimum Viable Product. This interview reminds me of some of the topics discussed in episode 7 with Radu Diaconescu of Swie.io which works with a similar business model and episode 23 with Jacob Rothman of Platform88 when we talked about manufacturing consumer products in China. Enjoy this episode. The highlights can be seen below. Raw transcript is available at: https://www.thehardwareentrepreneur.com Show highlights can be seen below: The vision and mission of Fictiv - [3:10] Finbarr's role as hardware evangelist and Fictiv's core business - [3:34] What's the value proposition of the company? – [6:35] The frustration that drives innovation – the story of the company's MVP [8:35] Their business model and what it has to do with Airbnb - [11:37] Considerations on Design for Manufacturing - [16:44] Who are their competitors and how are they different? - [17:53] Stages of financing the company - [20:25] Mistakes that Finbarr made after he joined the company, which he learned from - [21:08] Manufacturing in the U.S. vs China: Minimum Order Quantity, inventory, iterations - [23:44] Going from small-scale production in the US to mass-manufacturing in China - [27:02] Examples of companies which went from prototyping in the US to mass manufacturing in China - [29:34] If you could time travel and go back in time, what notes would you give yourself? – [30:33] Which book had the biggest impact on his career? – [31:25] An Iron Man habit – [31:49] What kind of cultural differences Finbarr had to overcome during his career? – [33:08] What is the best way to reach Finbarr? – [35:05]

This week's podcast features Cameron Robertson, CEO of smart lock maker Lockitron. Mike and Cameron catch up on the smart home news, including: -Amazon Echo becoming available for all -Astro's smart lighting for apartment dwellers -Roost's smart Wi-Fi battery for smoke alarms -Freshhub's kitchen commerce technology integration with NCR -Hoover Europe's Wi-Fi appliance range Mike also shares a few thoughts on Alexa's unbundling from the Amazon Echo and the Alexa $100 million development fund. Cameron and Mike also talk about the smart home startup landscape and whether there is a shakeout, and Cameron lends some great context given all the battles he's fought with Lockitron. Alexa also interrupts Mike's podcast intro (see podcast pic for the weird ToDo list that resulted from that) You can find out more about Lockitron at www.lockitron.com The sponsor for today's show is Soundwall, a company that is making connected art that CEO Aaron Cohen describes as Sonos meets Instagram. You can find out more about Soundwall at www.soundwall.com Listen to and subscribe to more Smart Home Shows at www.thesmarthomeshow.com Check out our first event called the Smart Kitchen Summit, a conference about the future of the connected kitchen: www.smartkitchensummit.com http://knit.audio/podcast-advertising (via Knit)

This week A.J. and Mikah talk about Google's new bill paying service, Universal Music's attempt to upend Spotify's "freemium" model and Google's close ties to the White House.Integrate TopicsA.J.: Better Touch ToolMikah: Sense--Produced by Katie HilerThis episode of Integrate is not sponsored by Thumbler.Music provided by Eino Toivanen, kongano.com.Follow Integrate on Twitter, and subscribe/rate/review the show on iTunes and Stitcher.Links and Show NotesGoogle's "Pony Express" bill paying service that works via GmailCash, the service A.J.'s roommates refuse to useMint: Personal Finance SoftwareEverything you need to know about Google WaveEmail Services - RankedThe Verge: Google meets with White House officials once a week on averageGoogle's Company PhilosophyThe Financial Times: Universal going after Spotify's "freemium" modelTidal: High Fidelity Music StreamingA.J.'s recommended column: The Verge: The best interface is no interface: why we don't always need An App for ThatA.J.'s Anti-Integrate Topics:Coin, Lockitron & VessylThings like Coin: Swyp, Stratos

After having a hugely successful crowdfunding campaign in 2012 for their Wi-Fi smart lock, Lockitron struggled to get the product to work well with Wi-Fi. They eventually got products out to 10 thousand backers, but decided late last year to go back to the drawing board and create an entirely new smart lock in the Bolt. In this podcast, Lockitron CEO Cameron Robertson tells the story of the how they came to the decision to create a new product, the challenges the company faced over the past few years and what the plan is going forward. You can read about Lockitron at www.lockitron.com You can find more Smart Home Shows at www.thesmarthomeshow.com Follow Mike on Twitter to suggest guests, tell him whether you like this theme music or just learn about smart home news before everyone else. www.twitter.com/michaelwolf http://knit.audio/podcast-advertising (via Knit)

Matt Haines (@BeardedInventor) of Electric Imp joins Elecia White to discuss how to connect cats (and other things) to the Internet. Buy an Imp on Adafruit but don't forget the adapter (aka April board). Get started with programming in Squirrel and find hardware details in the developer section of Electric Imp. We also mentioned Lockitron, a commercial product that uses Electric Imp.

Een tjokvolle aflevering waarin we niet op het woord ‘reputatie’ komen en met het Red Bull Skydive Stratos Spektakel, Space X, Elon Musk, Tandpasta, Facebook, Feature phones, SIM services, Zynga, Kakhiel, Strepsels, Lockitron, Bluetooth low power, Air BnB, TaskRabbit, Inception, Gekleurde iPad mini’s, de kokende onderbuurvrouw en Little Sad Keanu Reeves. Grote dank aan de vrienden van Appels en Peren: Soundcloud voor de bandbreedte, Nozzman voor het coverartwork en Clublime voor de introjingle. Alle links uit de aflevering Red Bull Stratos Space-X mission CRS–1 (Falcon 9) launch succes 1 miljard actieve Facebook gebruikers Facebook zero Kakhiel op Facebook Lockitron Kickstarter: Storied Tegenlicht iPad mini renders Makers unite - the revolution will be home-made Shapeways A Little Sad Keanu Reeves Alle links en informatie over de podcast vind je op appelsenperenshow.nl

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