It started at a conference. When Sara Chipps sat in the audience and watched a speaker use JavaScript to interact with a smoke detector, she was entranced. She left with a bag of LEDs, and a new love for hardware that led to her ultimately starting her hardware company Jewliebots. She talks to us about her transition from software developer to hardware CEO, the differences she’s seen between building software and hardware, and what it’s like to build a product for teenage girls.
Show Links
- Thinkful (sponsor)
- Sitepoint (sponsor)
- Jewliebots
- Francis Gulotta
- Spark
- JSON
- Highway 1
- Johnny Five
- Rick Waldron
- LED
- Guiness beer
- Emily Rose
- Open source
- Mesh network
- Soldering irons
- Wire strippers
- Arduino
Shoutouts
- littleBits (Sara)
- NodeBots (Sara)
- Sponsored: Thinkful’s Front End Web Development Course (Saron)
- The Motivation Game (Saron)
- So you want to build a hardware company and you’re a software engineer (Saron)
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