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Undertow10on Ask Us Anything: Y Combinator Hardware Companies Crowdfunding

For what it's worth, here is an excerpt from the Bluetooth SIG agreement that you probably accepted when signing up on their site:

"BLUETOOTH TRADEMARK LICENSE AGREEMENT

This Bluetooth Trademark License Agreement (the “License”) is made as of the date of acceptance by you as a member of Bluetooth SIG, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Bluetooth SIG”), as evidenced by you entering into the Bluetooth SIG Membership Agreement by clicking the “I Accept” button at the bottom of the Bluetooth SIG Membership Application and Commitment Agreement.

Effective upon such date, Bluetooth SIG, having ownership of the Bluetooth Trademarks (as defined below) hereby grants you the following rights related to such Bluetooth Trademarks in consideration for your acceptance of the terms and conditions of the Bluetooth SIG Membership Agreement."

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"2 LICENSE GRANT. 2.1 Scope. Subject to the Member complying with the terms and conditions of the Membership Agreement, this License and the Instructions, Bluetooth SIG hereby grants Member a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, nontransferable (with no right to sublicense), personal right to use the Bluetooth Trademark(s) in relation to production, manufacture, supply, promotion, marketing, sale, lease or other distribution and advertisement of Bluetooth Services and/or Bluetooth Products that include Compliant Portions (the “Trademark License”)."

Undertow10on Ask Us Anything: Y Combinator Hardware Companies Crowdfunding

Can you elaborate more on the events that led up to customs potentially seizing your power supplies? We have heard shipments for other companies have gone through with no problem.

Undertow10on Ask HN: Anyone Hiring Real Engineers?

Double Robotics is hiring! We are looking for both an electrical engineer and an embedded systems programmer, each with experience in motor control algorithms and robotics. jobs@doublerobotics.com

Undertow10on ‘Double’ (YC S12) Turns the iPad Into a Telepresence Robot

The video was made by our friends over at Mission Control Media: http://missioncm.com. Talk to Greg and Ken, they're awesome!

Undertow10on Meet The Double (YC S12), A Teleconferencing Robot With An iPad For A Face

Thanks! It was a collaboration between missioncm.com and cc-prod.com.

Undertow10on Meet The Double (YC S12), A Teleconferencing Robot With An iPad For A Face

Thanks! We're out in Mountain View now, but we built out our own shop a year ago in Miami, FL. About 90% of the manufacturing on Double is still done there today by our contract workers. We have a Haas VF-2SS mill and have made custom fixtures for most of the parts on the robot. We purchased a Stratasys FDM printer and brought it with us out to CA with us to do rapid prototyping during YC. All of the prototype electronics were hand-soldered under a microscope and tested in house, but we will soon be handing that off to a PCB Assembly house now that the boards are finalized.

As far as driving goes, we have 3 or 4 different methods we want to experiment with once things settle down, but so far the joystick-style is most intuitive. OpenTok's new iOS to iOS video has cut down on the lag a bunch.

Thanks for the comments!

-marc @ double