Open source hardware is hard to build a viable business off of because any decent manufacturer can create clones from the designs, and sell those at a price tha

Open source hardware is hard to build a viable business off of because any decent manufacturer can create clones from the designs, and sell those at a price that you cannot afford to match them at. To make it work, you need to do something like Adafruit where people buy from you because of quality and to support your mission to build more open source hardware.