You wouldn’t believe how many times I get asked this question. Before getting ahead of yourself, first consider if China is the best choice to begin with. Companies outsource manufacturing or product development to China to lower cost; however, “going...
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Unless you’re a highly-skilled firmware developer, it is not easy to program a microcontroller to perform at its full potential. An RTOS can help you with that. It micromanages your microcontroller to take care of the nitty-gritty details like multitasking,...
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China’s meteoric rise to becoming the “world’s factory” began at the end of the 70s. After Mao, China was stuck with a lot of very poor people. Deng Xiao Ping then started to open up China to lur ...
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How to get started having your custom electronic product manufactured in China? It really depends on how custom you want the product to be: Toasters with your company logo. A toaster factory...
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"Alexa buy me the best value espresso maker" will soon become the way we buy stuff, nobody is going to read reviews anymore. Amazon's brand-killing virus infiltrates half of all new electronic devices coming out. Alexa facilitates Amazon's "invisible brands"...
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In a recent interview, Elon Musk gave us a look inside his new Tesla Assembly Factory in Freemont, California. He made some very good points on the high level of automation,...
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Industrial IOT is the area within Internet Of Things where it’s easiest to make a business case. Forecasters predict some $3.7 Trillion in value to be created here in the...
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The reason we're buying such a large percentage of electronics from China is no longer cheap labor, but that China now has the most complete and cost-effective ecosystem of component...
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If you need a new electronic product manufactured, then the fastest and lowest cost way to get this done would seem to find an ODM factory in China which already...
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Bob O’Donnell points out in an article that the time that Apple was able to surprise the world with real innovations may well be behind us. They were very late with their Apple Watch, I guess they postponed the introduction a couple...
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As Ben Joffe shows in his presentation below, prices of quite a number of consumer products have come down very rapidly. The XiaoMi Yi camera for example equals or bests...
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In 2014 Relayr initially raised a modest 111K in crowdfunding for it’s beginner friendly IoT starter kit, but now got funded by venerated VC Kleiner Perkins. Congrats to the team and also to Startupbootcamp! The kit allows beginners to experiment with...
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After raising $3.4 M on KickStarter Feb 2014 they now raised another $22 million. This project is so ambitious that I was wondering whether they could pull it off, but they did the impossible and the unit is working well....
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