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That's the title that the winner of the Elektor Start-up Games, held during the the Electronics & Applications (E&A) trade fair in Utrecht last week, has managed to scoop up.

Fast Forward, the startup platform powered by Elektor, was once a niggling startup itself (in fact, no more than scrawling on a beer coaster). After two highly successful performances at the 2016 and 2018 electronica trade shows, the Fast Forward platform acquired status as totally innovative and is now rolled out again jointly with Messe München at productronica 2019 from 12-15 November.

Fast Forward has been in active service since 2016 when the ‘FFWD’ team made a solid impression at the prestigious electronica trade show in Munich. After an even more successful event last year November, FFWD will be rolled out big time again at productronica 2019 in November. We've only one advice: > PARTICIPATE!

Elektor’s racing vehicle called Fast Forward has been out on the race track since 2016 when the ‘FFWD’ team made a solid impression at the prestigious electronica trade show in Munich. After an even more successful event last year November, FFWD will be rolled out big time again at productronica 2019 in November. We've only one advice: > PARTICIPATE!

Electronic product manufacturing is a cyclic process, and many startups are sadly unaware of the dangers of jumping in overenthusiastically as well as at the wrong place. This article, a written rendering of a dynamic presentation by Niclas Fritz delivered at the electronica Fast Forward 2018 event, provides solid advice to prevent mistakes right at the beginning.

Showtime! If I say “Welcome to Embedded World 2019”, that’s meant to cover more than the crowded and noisy halls of the Nürnberg Messe between 25 and 28 February — I am also welcoming you to the platform called Elektor Industry, of which this magazine is just a part, and the first of three printed editions for the year 2919. All three are linked to an electronics trade show in Germany, and the line-up for 2019 is: (1) Embedded World, (2) Sensor + Test, and (3) Productronica. In between, we’re active with online articles, news feeds, and social media, from www.elektormagazine.com basecamp.

An honorary mention has been awarded to Cocktail Joe, an affable robotic barman with a light show, at the electronica Fast Forward contest. All through 2018, startup enterprises created by brilliant electronic engineers, have strived in the hope of winning their share of a €150,000 total prize pool. Congratulations to all the finalists, whom you can see in this video of the awards ceremony at Munich.

In an interview with Jan Buiting, Eben Upton explains: “If you can make a device that will withstand a child’s bedroom, it will certainly withstand a factory!” […]. When those who have bought their first RPi for their own edification, at home, then taking it into their professional lives, they have to explain to their colleagues that this board, seen as a toy, is more reliable than a lot of devices that claim to be industrial.”

Because several participants asked for it, here are the presentations from Avnet and EBV.