Episode 200 is Coming Up!
Jeri Ellsworth
- Self-taught electrical engineer and entrepreneur with over 20 plus years experience designing and building mass market consumer electronics
- Assembled the initial hardware R&D team for the Valve Software and was a key contributor to the technology used in the popular HTC Vive
- While at Valve, she began work on the AR technology that would later become the basis for the technology behind Tilt Five, where Jeri serves as CEO and Co-Founder
Topics
- What is Tilt Five?
- Kickstarter Campaign
- How does it function?
- The Industrial design behind the project?
- How important was getting the weight to < 90 grams?
- How did you do it?
- You have brought lots of products to consumer markets:
- Prototyping your “finalized” product or first article
- Parts with High NRE fees like Injection molding
- Electronics
- Selecting and sourcing the projectors?
- Retro reflective material for the game mat
- How long is the typical timeline for development?
- What is something people don’t think about when they start designing a product?
- War Stories
Hosts: Parker Dillmann, Stephen Kraig
Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!