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I feel The Framework team is learning the "electronics manufacturing 101" the hard way. Having shipped at least 20 devices in my life now, I can say most of th
by baybal2 5y ago
I feel The Framework team is learning the "electronics manufacturing 101" the hard way.
Having shipped at least 20 devices in my life now, I can say most of the time you manufacture what you can, and not what you want.
For me most projects start not as a piece of a napkin genius startup idea, but a walk around electronics markets, distributors, thinking what is a good deal now, and if getting all parts together in given time is real, and feasible for one project, or another.
- fake-name 5y agoSo much this. It's always some mixture between amusing and depressing seeing software people try hardware.
- breakingcups 5y agoIs the Framework team originally a software team?
- nikau 5y agoEngineering for manufacturing is a different skillset from even EE, for example a pick and place machine can only run so many reels of components, so sometimes its more economical to use multiple resistors instead of one as you can then get the board made on the smaller and cheaper machine.
- nrp 5y agoLuckily we all went through 101, 201, and some grad courses in building and scaling hardware the hard way in our previous companies. If not for that, we probably wouldn't have been able to ship anything in 2021.
- baybal2 5y agoNirav, where do you do the final assembly these days? Still at Quanta in Taiwan? Want to try doing assembly somewhere else?
- starky 5y agoWhy do you think they are learning the hard way? Everyone is having the exact same sourcing issues right now. The EE team I work with is spending at least half their resources right now on resolving part shortages. I would be surprised if there was any hardware team out there right now that isn't scrambling to see how they can keep shipping product.