I had a hardware company a few years back. It was a disaster even though we sold it to companies like CNN, Princeton University, Stanford, UCSD, UC Berkeley. If

I had a hardware company a few years back. It was a disaster even though we sold it to companies like CNN, Princeton University, Stanford, UCSD, UC Berkeley. If you want to do it as a hobby business, go ahead. But it's incredible how quickly your hardware supplies will change and impact your offering and you have to consider returns and the margins you will make. I would recommend offering a software package and let the users buy their own hardware if I did it again. That's still a difficult business but at least you don't have to carry physical inventory. Ask me more if this is relevant to you and you have questions.