Ask HN: Hardware Incubator/Accelerator

3 points by natemartin ↗ HN
There seems to be plenty startup incubators or accelerators aimed at web and software startups, but I haven't heard about any that are meant to launch hardware startups.

Has anyone here heard of any? I'm a hardware engineer, and I want to move from away from the large corporation I'm in now. However, most of the discussion you read on sites such as this are aimed at software.

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http://www.ycombinator.com/ideas.html

27. Hardware/software hybrids. Most hackers find hardware projects alarming. You have to deal with messy, expensive physical stuff. But Meraki shows what you can do if you're willing to venture even a little way into hardware. There's a lot of low-hanging fruit in hardware; you can often do dramatically new things by making comparatively small tweaks to existing stuff.

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Interesting. I guess I had always assumed YC was really aimed at more software startups, I'll take a closer look.