New hardware start-up, just graduated from the student team how to play?

Compared to pure Internet entrepreneurship, new hardware is difficult, involved in the field of complex, long period of risk, the team is difficult group. Software, a newly graduated student may be able to handle everything, but the hardware, many veteran team will be stretched. So, learned that Guijiachong this team are just graduated college students, I quite admire them. Graduation trip just finished, this is the three students in Shenzhen hardware incubator haxlr8r seated, after three months of incubation, prototype products have been made, has landed Kickstarter and roll-call time to start the public chip. Although the school has already done some development, but this efficiency is still quite high. The product is called Vigo and looks like a Bluetooth headset, but the main purpose is to monitor the user's attention level and remind you when you are sleepy. Guijiachong said he thought of the project when he was at school, because it was necessary to stay up late to review and prepare for the exam, and later found that there were many things the device could do, such as driver or security, which required a long period of time to maintain focus. Contact with a few VCs, many people have the investment intention, he encouraged the other two American students to come out to venture together. Look at the structure of Vigo: Vigo mainly through two dimensions to determine the wearer's mental state, one is to monitor the eye movements of the infrared sensor, the other is monitoring the head and body movement of the gravity sensor. The former principle is similar to leap motion gesture monitoring, but here is the monitoring of eyelid movements. Do not underestimate this blink, although only one-fifth seconds long, but contains a lot of information, Vigo will write down the various types of eyelid action data, based on its own model to judge the mental state of the human body. Gravity sensors help by monitoring the head and body movements to determine the user's basic movement information, such as sitting indoors or walking outside, and then using different algorithms to deal with different environments. Once you get the data, Vigo will give you a detailed chart showing how your mental state changes, the corresponding you can wear it in the sleepy time, set the alert sensitivity and reminder, you can let it at the right time in your way to wake you, can be led flashing, shaking or a song. Vigo via Bluetooth 4. 0 is connected with headphones, can also serve as Bluetooth headset to use, remind SMS or telephone is also convenient. In addition, Vigo has a lot of space to imagine, there are infrared sensors and gravity sensor, there are many things can be done, such as the blink of a phone to take photos or control the PPT page. Home hoon They also plan to open the API to developers, and let everyone try interesting play. After talking about the product, I asked some of their harvest of the trip to Shenzhen. He felt that Haxlr8r was a great help to their fledgling entrepreneurial team. The first is to be able to guide them in the general direction, this three months how to allocate, how to do it step-by-step, provide a framework for reference, which is very important to the novice. Second, HAXLR8R brings together a lot of resources, such as the common 3D printer and other manufacturing equipment, prior to the incubation project contacted by the reliable manufacturer resources, as well as the incubator mentor, and finally there is a point, that is the atmosphere, haxlr8r one phase will have 10 projects hatch together, we can exchange of materials, There will not be able to ask each other to help each other, often encountered a bug is always open, others a little guidance can be done. Jia-Hoon also with my regrets in Shenzhen this side do hardware entrepreneurship unique conditions. The total of the three founders spent only 1. 50,000 dollars on the three months of personal spending to deal with, in addition to 10,000 dollars to fix the raw materials and staff recruitment, short-term projects, so they recruit staff are also temporarily in this work, most of them are found on the internet, there are friends recommended. He told this to a friend of the American investment, 2. 50,000 to make the prototype? It's usually 1.5 million dollars over there. In addition to the low cost, Shenzhen in the production of high efficiency is also a great advantage, in the United States, with industrial-grade 3D printer to play a prototype needs 7 to 8 working days, this one day is done. The purchase of raw materials to run the production line is also extremely convenient, crossing the road is Huaqiang North, the car an hour to Dongguan factory. I also asked him about his personal situation, the children of 90, the University of Pennsylvania, and his double degree at the Wharton School, the kind of person who worked very hard when doing things that interested them. He said that his daily work is 11 o'clock Noon to three o'clock in the morning, probably can sleep for seven hours, students because of reading a double degree, Walton's competition is also very fierce, until the wee hours of the normal, is accustomed to. The other two U.S. partners will also follow him overtime, these four months in Shenzhen can make them tired, this is not all back to the United States have hurried to Christmas. A team like home hoon who can make a good prototype hardware product is very, very fortunate, the overall entrepreneurial environment in the United States is much better than that in China, and society will encourage people to do what they want, more inclusive, and the young men in their early 20 work together. Good luck to them.