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I was in the Bay Area for the ASIC Conference where uRADMonitor participated as an exhibitor. This came just a few days after the Environmental Monitoring Hack Chat that I hosted thanks to the kind invitation of Sophi Kravitz from Hackaday. Talking with Sophi I told her about my upcoming trip to the States and she suggested I should do a talk at the thirty-third gathering of the Hardware Developers Didactic Galactic, organised at the Supplyframe San Francisco Office. That was great because I wanted to meet these awesome guys again, after last seeing them at the Hackaday Superconference in 2015
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My talk was about how the uRADMonitor project started, about the obstacles down the road and how perseverence and the community helped to move on to first have a working prototype, then 10 units, then 100 and finally reaching 1000 a few days ago, right after all the second indieGogo campaign units were shipped. If I was to build a list of all the people that helped, it would take me a lot of time and many pages to hold all the names. Some of them are still there, some are not, life follows its path. I am greatful to all of them.
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Hackaday was close from the begining making this meetup and its topic so dear to me. The uRADMonitor project expanded:
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The meetup video is available on youtube with a story on how a hobby was turned into a full scale product, or call it simple “from DIY to the first 100”. Give it a go to see all the other details that didn’t fit in this article, or check out Bradley Ramsey’s nice write up on Medium, thanks Brad.
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