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They also are working on getting the tools that you need to design your prototype. Like Upverter (YCW2011) (https://upverter.com/) for designing your PCB.

Hey Pinkyand, Already up and running, here is an example https://upverter.com/Willian/5836a558aea96a1b/Arduino-Due-Sh...

OK, I am all for people coming from out of town! It would be great to get people form all over. For example, We at Upverter are Coming from Toronto, Canada!

If you shoot us an email at upverter support, we will add you to a mailing list for the next Hackathon that we do.

Unfortunately for this one we are only accepting people that are going to be able to be there in person. For the next one we do, we will try to incorporate remote participants.

Yes you can participate on your own. We have found that most of the time groups do better, but there are one person armies also work sometimes!

We will not out you either, we are going to be talking with all the teams and make sure that we can talk about what you are working on in any of the press that we do, we know that sometimes you have to keep quiet for a little bit.

You are allowed to build and prepare before hand. The Idea is to get a bunch of smart interesting people together in a room, make cool thing and have fun. I would guess by looking at some of the ideas so far that the hackathon will be just a part of some designs that could becomes companies. Others will be really great projects that will be done almost entirely in the event. Do you have an idea of what you want to work on?

The deadline to apply is the 7th of February (that is so we can get back to everyone on the 8th). Although I always liked the YC let people apply late model, We Expect it to be a full house so I do not know if we can be able to except late submissions.

It would be great if you submitted it earlier so that We can get some sleep the night of the 7th ;)

The expected output is CAD files (Schematic, PCB, mechanical) and maybe software (not all of them, just what applies to your project. There will be some people that bring hardware to prototype and show it off at the end of the event. But this not required.

a little more on the analog design end, but I like:

The Art of Electronics by Horowitz & Hill

Integrated Electronics by Millman and Halkias (There was allegedly a newer edition published in 2001)

Electrical Engineering 101: Everything You Should Have Learned in School... but Probably Didn’t by Darren Ashby

Microelectronic Circuits by Sedra & Smith (Look around for a 4th edition)

You should apply, but make sure you say what you experience is (in electronics and anything else that you do). We will take a look at the makeup of the applicants and see if we can get a good mix of people at the event, maybe you can help with the electronics and write some code. electronics are quite complex, there are many skills needed to create a complete hack.

We want to make sure that everyone that comes is successful and pushes their limits. 12 hours is not a lot of time to design hardware! You should jump in on the ideation board (http://ideation.upverter.com) and submit some ideas.

The applications are for a couple of reasons, them main one is that there is only so much room, so we want to make sure people are serious about coming.

The Basics: We are designing hardware (schematics, pcb layout, even the software and mechanical drawings if that is what you want to build), and doing it in 12 hours.

You can apply as an individual or as a team. If you are in a team already, you can look for more members if you are interested. If you are an individual, we are going to help you find a group with similar interests.

What are we going to do? well there are some ideas started at http://ideation.upverter.com/. But the last hackathon we did we had some robotics, some devices that created and filtered white noise so you could have private conversation. the possibilities are endless.

This time we hope that the hackathon is just the beginning. we hope that the many of the things started (or continued) at the hackathon go on to be startups.

I hope this answers you questions.

The best advice I think you can get is: Get an alpha in other people's hands to test out. feedback on a pseudo working alpha is much more valuable than feedback on theory. Get your demo in as many hand as possible, get feedback, then iterate.

Upverter was in the YC class that started in Jan 2011.

I like that idea, putting it on the whiteboard. I really thing that having a way to get help from the community would help all designers.

I think he might have been a little upset when he wrote it.

we would love to chat with you about what you need it to do! shoot us an email @ support.

p.s. I am one of the founder of Upverter

Thanks,

We are using hardware because we are trying to enable making. Electronics is really near to our hearts, and a really big part of the way that we "make", so this is where we are starting.

we are working on it, are you looking for export of previous version of full file, or the exporting of the diffs?

Thanks tonyarkles, we thought that doing a rotate twice would solve that, but with op-amps a mirror might look better, I will add it to our to-do list.