New startup Sendrato have built a platform for wristbands to monitor and entertain crowds at very large (100k+) scale, aimed at music festivals. How does the expansion feel from the (relatively) clean world of software to the gritty reality of custom built low-cost hardware? How different is the entertainment world from the enterprise world? How do all the best practices in software we know and appreciate translate to the hectic reality of a music festival where nothing is certain, but there is one big deadline, and the show must go on.