Only tangentially related, but EEV Blog recently did a video on PCB design BOM (Bill of Materials) optimization where he took a random open-source project as a

Only tangentially related, but EEV Blog recently did a video on PCB design BOM (Bill of Materials) optimization where he took a random open-source project as a counter-example. I'm not an electrical engineer, nor do I design PCBs, but it was still pretty interesting if you're into that sort of critique.