February 2012
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Crafting chocolate and cases
We’ve made a lot of progress in development in the last few weeks. (More on that in a bit.) We also crammed in a visit to our friends at Dandelion Chocolate. Since we’re all about making stuff these days, I want to give you a peek at how they make stuff, and how they’ll use Twine.
Todd and Alice were nice enough to show us their new bean-to-bar chocolate factory, one of only a...
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Shirts, Shoes, Service
Hello! We’ve been cranking on all cylinders, including some we didn’t know we had. Iterating on circuit board design, case design, firmware (the code that runs on Twine) and several layers of web software, while lining up production of about 20 times the number of Twines we thought we’d be making when we began this Kickstarter. That scale has also made it feasible for us to add a...
January 2012
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An enlightening Twine update.
Breakout boards are simply misunderstood.
We’ve heard all sorts of ideas about what they might do, like let you interface Twine with all sorts of other devices, connect every possible sensor to Twine at once, end football huddles, and even make possible Twime travel. (Sorry.)
If you guessed A: let you interface Twine with all sorts of other devices, give yourself a gold star. That is...
November 2011
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Twine: Twitter/SMS/email for your objects
We have had our heads down working like mad (because we are mad) on our new project for months, and now we’re ready to announce it.
Twine is the simplest possible way to get your objects connected to the Web. It’s a 2.5” square that uses internal and external sensors to tell you about its surroundings via Twitter, SMS or email. It’s tightly paired with a web app that...
October 2011
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We outsourced the future.
…product and process innovation are intertwined. So the decline of manufacturing in a region sets off a chain reaction.
— Gary Pisano and Willy Shih, “Restoring American Competitiveness”
As manufacturing moves from the U.S. to other countries, we miss the jobs lost. But we also lose two things that continue to hurt us in the future: expertise, and the ability to create significant new...
September 2011
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August 2011
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June 2011
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“The internet is nothing but software fabric that connects the interactions of...”
– Inside Google+ — How the Search Giant Plans to Go Social | Epicenter | Wired.com
We agree, but forget the software part — how about just fabric that connects us?
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Objects to connect us.
The Supermechanical Limited Liability Company is now online.
Supermechanical makes products and experiences that mate the successful interfaces between human and object, with the efficiency of digital media.
So much of electronic devices is hidden, and we don’t understand and love their nuances the way we do with ‘dumb’ objects.
We want to give soul to electronics, and make...