SmartScope - 重塑示波器

Specifications

LabNation team

Key members at January 2014:
• Riemer Grootjans: Ex-whiz-kid Riemer always believed he would be a game developer, until his master thesis convinced him of the beauty of electronics. After going for a PhD on real-time 3D cameras, he co-founded a company designing 3D cameras now distributed by several major California-based companies. As such, he had the rare opportunity to lead a hardware patent from prototype to mass-production. At the same time, he created the largest site with tutorials on XNA, reaching more than 7000 daily pageviews and 2000 registered community members. Additionally, Riemer authored 3 books on XNA with positive reviews. He received the Microsoft MVP award in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.
• Prof. Maarten Kuijk: Maarten is the live version of Wikipedia of Electronics. His research project have resulted in two spin-offs which have grown to a total of 120 employees, of which one has recently been acquired by Microchip in November 2013. Nevertheless, he stays true to his passion: teaching parttime classes as Professor to Master students in Electronical Engineering at the University of Brussels. Maarten acts as mentor to the SmartScope project.
• Glan Li: Born and educated in China, Glan was intrigued by the fundamental beauty of electronics. After finishing his Master in Electronical Engineering and working on various electronical projects, Glan was given responsability over a production line assembling more than 1 million camera devices per month. As such, he carries a wealth of experience in the areas of manufacturing and quality assurance.
• Bruno Buyssens: After obtaining a Master in Business Engineering, Bruno pursued several technical jobs before refocusing towards marketing. He joined Sony and quickly moved towards Key Account Manager, dealing with distributors on a daily basis. Next to that, Bruno is well-known in the entrepreneurial scene, constantly looking for new business ideas and eager to launch his own start-up. With LabNation, he is looking forward to take a more leading role.

Where we are today
After about a year of research and development, we produced the first prototype in March 2013, a second version in August and third one in October. In November a small batch of 10 final products was produced in China under Glan's approving eye.

Thanks to the early production of 10 fully operational SmartScopes we now can say that everything is in place to start up full production -- what we're missing at this point is your strong backing to put the SmartScope into production. Software is feature-complete and validated to stream data on all platforms, while we keep developing to bring it closer to a first distributable version.

Production Plan
We didn't want to launch our Kickstarter before having a fully working and validated product. This took us more than a year and 3 iterations, but at this moment we have produced 10 fully functioning SmartScopes, meaning the SmartScope is ready to put into production.

However, we are planning one additional iteration after the end of our campaign: this allows us to include the best and most interesting ideas coming from your comments. After all, who knows how far possible stretch goals could take us? :)

Risks and challengesLearn about accountability on Kickstarter
When bringing a hardware product from idea to reality, it is easy to think about what the product should and shouldn't do. However, when it comes to manufacturing, there are many more things to take into account: suppliers, reliability tests, calibration, production and certification all require experience and dedication.Therefore, it is no surprise that many hardware projects are facing delays, especially in the later phases of production. Here are the main root causes of such delays, and how we are preventing them: