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Building real hardware is expensive, isolating and hard to start.
So we started Netca: a Vancouver co-manufacturing community connecting people with the knowledge, equipment and expertise to bring ideas to life.
We also run monthly events teaching hands-on hardware to anyone.
New phrase from Netca Series #5: vestigial features. These are aspects of the product that stay in a design only because they were in the original, not because the product needs them. For every feature, ask: is this needed, or just inherited?
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Netca Series #5 (Oct 29): Design for Manufacturing with @MCoyleDesign at @dctrlvan. 30+ people came out.
What stuck:
Hardware isn’t harder than software, it’s different.
Software can fail in public. Hardware has to fail in private.
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ALT One wheel Pint slide with Mike
ALT Paper towel holder built with straws, duct tape and rubber bands
ALT DFM Discussion with participants
ALT Hardware is hard slide
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This week Netca hosted their 5th meetup at DCTRL!
@netca_hw is a local co-manufacturing and hardware community.
@MCoyleDesign led a hands-on workshop on how to take a design from prototype to production.
Decentralized tech 🤝 manufacturing & hardware
Same function. Different material. Very different process, tooling, and cost.
Tomorrow, @MCoyleDesign walks through how that choice plays out from prototype to production. Feel free to bring something you’re working on too!
Thu Oct 29, DCTRL Vancouver
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A part that works once is not a product.
Netca Series #5: Design for Manufacturing workshop with @MCoyleDesign , who led engineering on the Onewheel Pint and CLUG bike rack.
Thu Oct 29, 6 PM, DCTRL Vancouver.
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We’re giving away $2,000 to people who build something cool.
We doubled the HeyPCB Hardware Challenge.
$1,000 for the most likes.
$1,000 for the best board.
Build anything: PCB, robot, wearable, camera, keyboard, weird little machine, whatever you want.
And you don’t have to start from scratch. There are 11,000+ open-source hardware designs on HeyPCB you can fork and build on: heypcb.ai/world
Deadline extended to November 30.
Submit yours: heypcb.ai/challenge
Building something for the HeyPCB Hardware Challenge ($2,000 prize)?
Join us at DCTRL for a co-working session, Thu Oct 15, 6 to 8pm.
Bring your laptop, collaborate, get feedback & get unstuck. Space is limited! luma.com/yhd5hecs
@heypcbai @dctrlvan