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You two might not be disagreeing. America can absolutely lose out on low-cost parts while increasing its manufacturing base. It's an insanely large field.
by NegativeK 3y ago
You two might not be disagreeing.
America can absolutely lose out on low-cost parts while increasing its manufacturing base. It's an insanely large field.
- TaylorAlexander 3y agoWell I'm developing an open source farming robot and I just find myself constantly dreaming of spending a month in china to supercharge development of our product. I need better test equipment, I need to shop motors, I need to iterate on PCB design and test, fab, test, fab, test, fab. And the best I can do is look at a little window on my computer on to aliexpress or alibaba and hope I can find something decent, and wait a week or two or three for it to arrive. I would be SO MUCH FASTER at developing my farming robot if I was in a manufacturing mecca like Shenzhen. That is what I wish we could have here in the US. Not a small number of high value manufacturers, but the whole damn chain. Not only would it make our development faster, it would make our products better and cheaper and it would make our lives better.