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Predictable Designs
Company blog · predictabledesigns.comhardwarestartups
Predictable Designs is the company blog at predictabledesigns.com, writing about hardware and startups. Since 2017, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this site for guides on designing and prototyping electronics products, including home-level prototyping and getting a hardware product to market. Commenters point to its guides as resources.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Where electronics and entrepreneurship intersect
What Hacker News says?
One more solid resource is John Teel's website and blog: http://predictabledesigns.com/resources/
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on “Ask HN: What are hardware development learning web tutorials?”Submitted From Arduino Prototype to Mass Production as a story · 2 points
HN discussionInteresting comparing the answers here that are for a "looks-like" vs a "works-like" prototype, ref: https://predictabledesigns.com/the-essential-guide-to-protot... Having no experience in gamedev, I could imagine that as in other fields these milestones are a bit orthogonal. You need a works-like prototype for internal use to confirm the basic questions like "is it fun" before committing to polish, and you need tha…
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on “Unreal Engine 5 enters Early Access”Submitted From production to prototype with ESP-32 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHere's a nice guide to home-garage-level designing and prototyping of electronic devices: https://predictabledesigns.com/how-to-develop-and-prototype-... Note however that the post-design prototyping stage is all done with off-the-shelf boards and similar components, there are no recommendations for developing surface mount soldering skills [1] or home semiconductor fabs[2], which are indeed cool but more in the hob…
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on “The mystery of the garage”Submitted How Much Does It Cost to Develop and Manufacture a New Electronic Product as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI have no idea if this guy is any good (I believe the "hardware product" he brought to market was a simple stick-on LED front light for tv remote controls or something like that), but he now consults on exactly this, and his blog/email posts are certainly extremely interesting and plausible: https://predictabledesigns.com/ tldr: it's a huge jump (like 90%++ of the effort) from even a polished prototype, to a ship-ab…
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on “Ask HN: I want to build an electronic wearable, where do I start?”Submitted How to Create a Proof-of-Concept Prototype for an IoT Device Using the ESP32 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI recently hired and working with someone for PCB design/manufacture low volume of IoT devices. As other threads mentions, you can always find folks on fiver and upwork. Hardware academy is also good, where you can ask questions and meet other folks who build electronics products. https://predictabledesigns.com/academy/ Happy to talk and give pointers, email in my profile. Edit: I've no affiliation with hardware aca…
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on “Taking over a Dead IoT Company”Submitted Migrating from Arduino to STM32 Microcontrollers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSite https://predictabledesigns.com could be useful. Deals mainly with new electronics / software products The corresponding paid site is https://thehardwareacademy.com/community/index.php https://thehardwareacademy.com/community/
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on “Ask HN: Where to get help with a hardware idea?”Submitted How Long It Takes to Develop a New Hardware Product? as a story · 1 points
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