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The Four Market Trends Driving Antenna and Connector Innovation

On December 10, 2019 in All, Connectors by Molex

Molex joined Mouser in sponsoring Crowd Supply’s Teardown 2019, a gathering for discovering and sharing hardware. This year’s event focused on the four trends driving antenna and connector innovation as well as provided rapid-fire feedback from the people designing Molex solutions in their devices.

Tagged With: Antenna, Connector, Innovation, Molex, Teardown 2019

Developing Your Design with the Help of a Hardware Accelerator

On October 2, 2019 in All, EIT 2019: Engineering Big Ideas, StartUp by Mike Reed

Hardware accelerators offer investment, networking, and expert consultation on aspects of technical and business development. With the hardware innovation space more competitive than ever, this help is vital. As a startup, if you can’t develop your technology and grow fast, you will fall behind.

A Lesson in Innovation: Bishop Curry and Oasis

On August 9, 2019 in All, EIT 2019: Engineering Big Ideas, Maker by David Talbott

Innovations begin with ideas and inspiration. A tragic event inspired middle-school student Bishop Curry. Believing future incidents are preventable, he made a rough sketch of a solution, raised money through crowdfunding, and built a prototype. Now he owns the patent.

Tagged With: Bishop Curry, Crowdfunding, Ideas, Innovation, Invention, Oasis, Patent

Welcome to Innovation

On August 7, 2019 in All, EIT 2019: Engineering Big Ideas, Maker by Jeffrey Hutchings

Corporations and universities continue to play a key role in developing new technologies, but innovation is becoming more open than ever before. Easy idea sharing and development tools accessible to almost anyone are changing the face of innovation.

Tagged With: Accelerator, Creative ideas, Creator, Ideas, Incubator, Innovation, Invent, Invention, Maker

A Combo for Innovation: Open Source and Crowdfunding

On January 24, 2018 in 3D Printing, Computing, Dev Tools, Maker, Open Source, Security by Bruce Byfield

In the last few years, open source and crowdfunding have become a joint force multiplier, leading to new product innovations and a deeper expansion of open source into business.

Engineering Your Creativity

On November 27, 2017 in All, Student Central by David Fambrough

If you’re like many people I know, inspiration rarely comes when you’re setting at your work desk, staring at a blank wall, or aimlessly exploring cyberspace while looking at your smartphone. Here are some tips to feed your creativity, get un-stuck from mental blocks, and pursue your never-ending quest for ideas.

How To Start A Hardware Startup

On October 9, 2017 in All, Maker, Open Source by Marcel Consée

Game-changing, industry-revolutionizing applications begin with electronic hardware. A variety of resources are available to turn your inspirations into ideas and to take your ideas through to success. What are you waiting for?

Tagged With: DIY, FabLab, hardware pioneers, hardware startup, innovation, makers, open source

Why Inventiveness is More Important Now Than Ever

On September 7, 2016 in Maker, Open Source, STEAM by Steven Keeping

The buzzword “innovation” has become something of a mantra for the technology sector, designed to stimulate the out-of-the-box thinking needed to come up with winning products against ever tougher competition. But innovation is perhaps as wrong a mantra today as it was in the seventeenth century when, according to an article in The Atlantic, innovators were more likely to have their ears cut off and be thrown into jail than celebrated. What we need today, more than ever, is not innovation, but invention.

Tagged With: Innovation, Invention, Maker Movement, Open Source, STEM

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