For Hardware Entrepreneurs, Getting From Idea to Reality Isn’t Easy

<a href="http://www.tinker.it" rel="nofollow">http://www.tinker.it</a> turns this article on it's head cf: <i>"Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work?"</i> ~ <a href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/16-11/ff_openmanufacturing?currentPage=all" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/16-11/ff_open...</a>

I'm currently working on prototypes for a potential hardware start up, and I'd love to hear more from the HN community that has dealt with that hardware software interaction for a start up.<p>This place seems pretty software focused, but there must be some more hardware people out there as well.

I was at Clickable's Interesting Cafe on Monday, and Peter Semmelhack of Bug Labs gave an impressive presentation on his vision of lowering the cost barrier for would-be hardware entrepreneurship. <a href="http://www.buglabs.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.buglabs.net/</a>

I'm taking a stab at this myself. Feel free to follow my progress here, I'll be blogging it pretty in depth if I can actually keep it going. <a href="http://projectexcitebike.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://projectexcitebike.blogspot.com/</a>