HARDWARE COMMUNITY
Hardware Startups
Developing hardware products is Hard! Here you can find a community that can help you during the pipeline of industrialization
Community of Makers
Makers are one of the most creative communities worldwide. We want to engage this community to stimulate the creativity and share of technical skills
Industry
The step from product development to industrialization is the most difficult. We want to bridge the gap between hardware startups and the contract manufacturers
Hardware Product development is hard.
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Sunset Hackathon 2017
O Primeiro Sunset Hackathon chega a Portugal! Dias 1, 2 e 3 de setembro, o Hardware City organiza uma maratona tecnológica de 72 horas focada na criação de soluções inovadoras que reúne talentos e empresas num contexto descontraído e de Verão – e tu não podes faltar! O grande objectivo deste evento passa por promover[…]
Sunset at Hardware City
É verdade que temos andado mais calados, como já podem ter reparado, mas a verdade é que andamos a cozinhar uma surpresa daquelas – e, como vocês sabem, a única coisa no Mundo que se fez com a ajuda de aliens foram as Pirâmides de Gizé (mesmo essas tiveram uma mãozinha ou outra dos egípcios).[…]
Hardware City Session #7: Speakers
We’re back again and with another awesome session! This time, we wanted to do something really special, so we decided to create a panel full of women! Yeah, we know that this kind of area can be dominated by men, but we also know that even though women are not the minority, they can do[…]
Session #6 – Greetings to our Sponsors
On the aftermath of our HARDWARE CITY Session #6 – AgroTech, we would like to thank our dear sponsors. Without them, the event would not have been possible the way it was! Câmara Municipal de Aveiro [Link] CMA was one of our first partnerships. They ensure that we have all the equipment[…]
Hardware City Session #6: Speaker Francisco Manso
Here we are to present you our second speaker: Francisco Manso! What can we tell you about Francisco? He first started he’s academic journey in Agronomic Engineering which triggered him to found Engirega. Since that first company until Trigger.Systems has gone almost 20 years! During this time, Francisco worked as Senior Consultant at World Sustainability Society[…]
Hardware City Session #6: Speaker Alexandre Pinto
We’re so proud to present you all our fist speaker: Alexandre Pinto! Alexandre is co-founder of iClio SA and CoolFarm SA (you remember, the coolest farmers ever?) SA and member of the Sapo24 Editorial Board. He first started his academic career in History and nowadays, besides other roles, he’s invited teacher and researcher in european[…]
Hardware City Session #6: Speaker Rogério Nogueira
And at last – but not the least – our speaker: Rogério Nogueira! Rogério is the one who will bring to us some knowledge about how to make great wine using technology – but he is so much more than litres of pure Gods’ nectar! CEO and Co-founder of WATGRID, Rogério’s resume also includes a lot[…]
Hardware City Session #6 – Food and beverages
Since we don’t live from air (at least in this awesome City!), we bring to you something that will make disappear any little doubt about your presence in this session! As the other sessions, we’re delightful to have with us our favorite sponsors: Maldita Maldita Craft Beer is a multi award winner from Aveiro[…]
How awesome the startups of our speakers are?
Maybe at this time, you’re still trying to realize if this session is relevant for you. We think news speak for themselves. Just look at these ones: Trigger.Systems Trigger.Systems is on the spotlight these days and for several reasons. Trigger.System engaged with Portugal Ventures with the former investing in the company with[…]
HwC Session #6 – List of Showcases
Hey there We’re pretty sure that at this moment you’re wondering what startups will be there to present their technology. In all it’s glory, here’s the breakdown of the some of the startups that will be next wednesday at our Centro Cultural e de Congressos. CosmoNauta COSMO concentrates all the data you need for the[…]
HwC Session #6 – AgroTech
Yeah, we are awesome and we gather agriculture and technology – so we can call more people to our sessions! In fact, nowadays they have a lot in common, so join us and let’s talk about AgroTech! And if we didn’t get your attention yet, a magic word will do: sushi! We’ve also prepared a live[…]
HwC @ Pixels Camp – Football table IoT ready
Football is cool, right? What about a football table? And what about Football table IoT ready? Don’t know what it is? Check it at Hardware City booth. Description: A football table will be available for anyone to play. This table is speciall because is IoT ready! You can check the score online . Where: HwC[…]
HwC @ Pixels Camp – Hacking Challenge
Nothing is quite exciting as a challenge. Why not enroll on a Hacking Challenge? The Makey Claw is a hacking project The altLab collective, created for the community to experience the i2c or serial communication protocols using microcontrollers. The aim is to trim creativity and bring the makers to rethink the interaction interface with the[…]
HwC @ Pixels Camp – Workshops
The best way to engage with Hardware development is in hands-on sessions. For Pixels Camp we will have a series of workshops that will allow you to give the first steps into this brave new world. Here it is the breakdown: HwC Workshop #1 – Clone your own Finger By: Ricardo Pereira. Read more about[…]
HwC @ Pixel Camp – Digital Fabrication
Developing hardware projects can be a lot easier when someone who has been through your struggle is right next to you sharing the words of wisdom. And that’s what we want to empower you with! At Pixel Camp we will repeat one of our classics: Hardware City Talks In these sessions you’ll be able to learn how to use[…]
Hardware City @ Pixel Camp
Yes, we have been silent for a couple of months, but rest assured, we’ve been preparing something exciting for the times to come. Developing a community is no simple task and after the great feedback and participation we received from you in the first semester of our run, we really had to take a breath[…]
Hardware City Session #5 – Food and beverages
Tech is best served cold… and along with something in our stomach. We don’t want just anything for our Sessions, so we’d like to show you our gorgeous (and favorite we must say) sponsors: Maldita Maldita Craft Beer is a multi award winner from Aveiro and will give you the opportunity to taste their set of different[…]
Hardware City Session #5 – List of Showcases
Hey there Probably you’re still stoked with the win of our football team. Our full list of showcasers will not make you any better. Here they are: Makers 3DPonics – David Silva David Silva brings us an hands-on session merging 3D printing and hydroponics. 3Dponics is an open-source initiative for the development of 3D[…]
Session #5 Guests: Celso Martinho
We are happy to present our Second Guest for this Session: Celso Martinho! Celso is a challenge driven, optimistic geek technologist, product guy, and entrepreneurial soul, eventually thrown into a management career. Founder of SAPO, the largest web portal in Portugal. Worked in the Telco industry building large scale B2C services in areas ranging[…]
Session #4 – Greetings to our Sponsors
On the aftermath of our HARDWARE CITY Session #4 – European Maker Week, we would like to thank to our dear sponsors. Without them, the event would not be possible the way it did. Câmara Municipal de Aveiro [Link] CMA was one of our first partnerships. They ensure that we have all equipment we need[…]
HARDWARE CITY: THE DIGITAL FABRICATION EXPERIENCE
With technology at our service, we decided to take the digital fabrication initiative a step further. We invited Helder Santos (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/helderlsantos) an experienced Industrial Designer, currently working in the UK to demonstrate the power of Digital Fabrication, by designing an element related to the discussion during the timeline of the Session itself. “I was attending[…]
Session #4 Guests: Severino Raposo
Severino holds a degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from the University of Aveiro, and has since then, been working on several hardware related projects, such as: ADS – An electrical data acquisition system for Arch Welding (TIG, MIG/MAG etc.) ADRS – Data Monitoring System for Resistance Welding RR365 – Electronic design watch with old Nixie-Type[…]
Session #4 Guests: António Gonçalves
António holds a Degree on Physics by Coimbra University, a master in Physics Education by Lisbon University, and a DEA on eLearning by Barcelona Open University. He is particularly interested in cooperative and collaborative open projects, informal learning, at the moment he is the “LAB Aberto” coordinator (https://pt.linkedin.com/in/fqantonio). “LAB Aberto” is a mini FAB LAB[…]
StartUP Portugal Support
HARDWARE CITY is all about the community! With each passing week, the community grows bigger and bigger and our goals strengthen. We’re happy to announce the support from our friends at StartUP Portugal! Let us welcome you to the community and thank you for believing in our cause. We are focusing on bringing the industry[…]
Road to Session #4 – Don’t get lost
With only 6 days until the big event, it’s time to share the full schedule! We’ve been preparing something awesome for you all and we hope you will enjoy it. With an edition dedicated to FabLabs and to the maker community, we’ll have FabLab Gurus, Drones, Experienced entrepreneurs that leveraged their concepts to reality using Fablabs,[…]
Session #4 Guests: José Meliço
José Meliço is an Civil Engineer graduated from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He holds a master degree in the same field and is the founder and CEO of EIDT S.A., a start-up developing a drain water heat recovery system – the ZYPHO. José Meliço initiated his professional activity as an Engineer trainee at Charoen Pokphand Group[…]
Session #4 Guests: Luís Carvão
Luís Carvão is incredibly passionate about technology and creativity. His days are spent in front of both computers and machines, learning with them and from them “how to make “almost” anything”. He completed his master degree in architecture at ISCTE-IUL in 2011 and joined the FabLab EDP team allowing his and since then my geeky/creative[…]
Calling all Makers!
Are you a Maker? Do you enjoy sharing experiences and knowledge about the things you build with others who share the same passion? Join us! Join the Community. Apply Here: https://goo.gl/DKrauZ If you’ve built or are currently working on a project during your research or as a hobby, fill out this form and join us. This[…]
HARDWARE CITY SESSION #4
The next HARDWARE CITY SESSION edition will be held within the context of the: EUROPEAN MAKER WEEK You can register for free here: http://events.europeanmakerweek.eu/events/view/464 We are preparing something Huge for you. This time around, the discussion will focus on the Maker Community and FabLabs. For that purpose we will be featuring 4 Great Guests explaining the concept, and talking[…]
HARDWARE CITY Session #3 – João Costa
João Costa is an Electronic and Computer Engineer working at SAR – Soluções de Automação e Robótica Lda, an Start-Up of University of Minho founded at 2006. Currently he is manager of botnroll.com, a SAR’s brand directly associated to educacional market. He is excited to present the SAR’s history as a Start-Up that began to[…]
HARDWARE CITY Session #3 – André Sousa
André Sousa is Co-CEO and one of the two founders of ISSHO Technology, a startup that developed a 3D configuration tool to allow mass customization to furniture manufacturers. He’s a graduate engineer from University of Porto, with business management and finance training. His career started at Sonae Sierra’s shopping center developments. After that, he moved[…]
HARDWARE CITY Session #3 – Hugo Silva
Hugo believes he’s one of the few lucky people that can say he worked very few days in his life… not because of lack of a job (fortunately), but because when you do stuff you love and you’re passionate about almost every single day, there’s no boundary between what’s work and what’s just pure fun.[…]
HARDWARE CITY Session #3
We are happy to announce the HARDWARE CITY Session #3! After a crowded and sometimes messy second session, we are announcing an HARDWARE CITY Session with new facilities, equipment and more prepared to receive you! We will bring to you three guests and this time, a pitch of a new product from a maker![…]
A Crowdsourced Map of the Hardware Ecosystem
We invite everyone to contribute to an Open Directory for Hardware Ecosystem, by filling in key information divided into four main categories: contract manufacturers, startups, maker communities and talents. Over and over we find the same problem: companies looking for someone to provide a certain service, entities looking for manufacturers to help them produce their[…]
Join our Slack Community
We’re starting something new toward a live and organic hardware community. We have a bold vision for HARDWARE CITY. One of our main goals is to galvanize a community of entrepreneurs, contract manufacturers and makers around one table, working together in a city-style-organization. By no means is this a simple task! That’s why we would[…]
Hardware City Session #2 – André Cardote
André Cardote is the Director of Engineering for Veniam. He received his Ph.D. in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering / Vehicular Networks from the University of Aveiro in 2014. During his Ph.D., he spent time at Carnegie Mellon University as a visiting researcher. While his main expertise is computer networks, he is also interested in electronics[…]
Hardware City Session #2 – Ricardo Roque
Ricardo Roque – is a founding team member of Silicon Valley based payment startup Noatta Inc. and co-founder of Lisbon based Eggelectronics. He obtained a Mechanical and Process Engineering Degree from the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Inst. of Tech. Zurich). He is also a maker and entrepreneur by nature. We’ll get a chance to hear[…]
Hardware City Sessions #2 – Pitch your idea
Are you working on a Prototype or PoC (Proof of Concept)? Are you waiting for a chance to show off your project? Or maybe you just want to hear some feedback from experienced professionals? Send us a PM to apply for an opportunity to pitch your HARDWARE project on the next HARDWARE CITY Session! You’ll[…]
Hardware City Session #2 – José Salgado
José Salgado is an Electronics and Telecommunications Engineer currently working at Altice Labs, where he has held a number of different positions, several in the area of hardware development and production. He is currently chair of the Deployment & Operations Committee of the Fiber To The Home Council. We are excited to learn more about[…]
We are happy to announce the HARDWARE CITY Session #2!
After a great kick-off, we are planning a new, even more ambitious, HARDWARE CITY Session! We went out of our way to bring you three awesome guests, that will share their experience, vision and know-how. We hope you enjoy this session! Come and be a part of the Community! Join us at the old Ceramic[…]
We are looking for Hardware City’s Community Manager!
Hi everyone! We are looking for Hardware City’s Community Manager! While we’re approaching fast to the next Hardware City Session, we’re continuously working towards a live, exciting and diverse Hardware Community. This is as much rewarding as it is difficult and time-consuming. Fortunately our team is expanding and it’s still time for you to join[…]
HARDWARE CITY Sessions #1
Carlos Alves was HARDWARE CITY Sessions’ first guest. Carlos is one of the co-founders and administrator of HFA – Eletrónica e Telecomunicações – one the biggest and most important companies of electronic assembling in Portugal – and Globaltronic, an electronics company operating in the fields of energy efficiency, general electronics and telecommunications. For all those[…]
HardwareCity Session #1: The Kickoff!
We’re launching the first Hardware City Session! Hardware City is a community of entrepreneurs that bridges Hardware Startups, Makers and contract Manufacturers. The Hardware City Sessions will feature guests with vast experience in their fields, sharing best practices, experience and answering questions from the audience. The First Edition will host Carlos Alves, co-founder of HFA,[…]
Hardware City Community
Hardware City is the place to be in the hardware world. We know that building a Product is tough work. Building a hardware product can be extremely challenging. There is a general absence of a competence Network and it’s difficult to move around the right contacts and organizations to partner with. You’re not alone. We want to help you[…]