Silicon Valley StartupDigest Hardware – September 12, 2011

12/09/2011

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Jeremy Conrad – Co-Founder of Lemnos Labs

 

 

What’s Going on in the Silicon Valley Hardware Community

California Water: Crisis or Crossroads?
When: Monday, September 12, 7:00-8:30 PM
Where: Santa Clara County Office of Education, San Jose Room, 1290 Ridder Park Dr, San Jose, CA 95131

Join Pacific Institute research hydrologist Matthew Heberger in a discussion on how the insecurity of our California water resource poses threats to our health, environment, and economy – and how we need to change the way we think about, use, and manage water in the 21st Century.

Robots and the Democratization of Quality
When: Tuesday, September 13, 6:00-7:30 PM
Where: SRI Intl.: International Bldg., Middlefield Rd. @ Ringwood, Menlo Park, CA 94025

Rich Mahoney, Ph.D. will discuss the emergence of personal robots and the drivers that may lead to their evolution and wider adoption by society.

Make:SF Meetup at the SF TechShop
When: Tuesday, September 13, 6:30 PM
Where: Tech Shop SF, 926 Howard St, San Francisco

This month we are going back in time. :) Or maybe the mini project we are doing is coming from the past… Anyway, this month we will be making chain mail!

SME North Bay Visits Micro-Vu Precision Measurement Systems
When: Wednesday, September 14, 3:30-4:30 PM
Where: Micro-Vu Corporation, 7909 Conde Lane, Windsor, CA 95492

Come join SME North Bay as we visit Micro-Vu Corporation. Micro-Vu not only manufactures sophisticated precision measurement equipment, they have a state of the art manufacturing and machining facility, with newly installed automation equipment. Micro-Vu designs and manufactures a broad line of measuring machines including Automated Vision Systems, Manual Video Systems, and Optical Comparators.

Telemedicine: New Technologies and Perspectives from the field
When: Wednesday, September 14, 6:00-8:30 PM
Where: National Semiconductor Auditorium (Bldg E), 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051

Rapid advances in telecommunication technology and growing interest in the efficacy of healthcare have led to mushrooming activity in telemedicine. Recent telemedicine programs are much more ambitious and on a much larger scale than envisioned earlier. We share these with you in this seminar, which includes three talks followed by a panel discussion.

Electric Vehicle Entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley Meetup
When: Thursday, September 15, 8:00-10:00 AM
Where: TBA

The Electric Vehicle Entrepeneurs of Silicon Valley (EVE) is a non-profit group of peer entrepreneurs and innovators in Silicon Valley who want to participate in the design, development, and marketing of electric vehicles and electric vehicle technologies. This meeting will focus on Electric roadtrains.

 

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