growth hacking on hardware & software : ideas for startups with the raspberry pi

Growth Hacking on Hardware & Software

Ideas for Startups with the Raspberry Pi

Sam Ng

• 4 Generation Malaysian

• From Petaling Jaya

• Working in Penang for 3 yrs in (next slide)

intro

• Raspberry Pi Penang Community group

• Founder and Facilitator – meetups, workshops etc

• Raspberry Pi meetups - 3rd Monday of the month

• Raspberry Pi

• Software Hacking

• Hardware Hacking

• Making

what

Raspberry Pi

May 2014 - 3 million sold

worldwide!

LEARN, USE, CODE/MAKE

Software

Hardware

Making

ideas

more ideas...

• Raspberry Pi

• Software Hacking

• Hardware Hacking

• Making

why

Gartner 2013 – Technological Hype graph

Learning platform :

• Hands On approach

• Step by Step guides

• Coding/Programming with Hardware

• Free resources and learning the “economy” of free

• Tinkering & Making platform

• Ikea effect – people love things they make themselves

• Tech approach : Software embedded systems

• Engineering

why

• Forums – RaspberryPi.org/forums

• Communities – FB : Raspberry Pi Penang, Raspberry Pi Malaysia, R Pi Singapore, Hackerspace SG

• Meetups, Gatherings - Raspberry Pi Penang, Barcamp Penang, Barcamp JB,

• Online Stores to purchase – Cytron, Destiny, ChalkBoard Electronics

• Physical Shops– Cytron (Simpang Ampat), Tonsin (Georgetown), Destiny Electronics (Elit Avenue Bayan Lepas & Butterworth), Kampung Bengali Area

where

q&a Sam Ng • sam@tehais.com

• Twitter: twitter.com/samtehais

• Personal Fb : fb.me/samngnet

• R Pi PG FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rpi.PG/