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by bittwiddle
745 days ago
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Thanks for sharing! I'm currently trying out a bootstrapped hw project myself, and have enjoyed following along with your progress. You mentioned having trouble working with vendors, was this for ex: having boards assembled? I guess I've probably gotten "lucky" with relatively low scale so far, but been happy with the assorted online PCBA services. |
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>You mentioned having trouble working with vendors, was this for ex: having boards assembled? I guess I've probably gotten "lucky" with relatively low scale so far, but been happy with the assorted online PCBA services.
Oh, it was a challenge to find vendors for pretty much everything. The cost of switching vendors in hardware is pretty high once you've built a pipeline around a particular vendor, so it's important to have reliable vendors. But we had trouble finding vendors for PCB design, PCB assembly, third-party logistics, and packaging. We eventually found vendors that worked well, but even the good ones would have occasional wrinkles that needed smoothing out.
I wrote previously about how poorly I chose a vendor to do a redesign of TinyPilot's website:
https://mtlynch.io/tinypilot-redesign/