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I’ve made a conscious effort to build our (Kickstarted!) stuff domestically. With the exception of one product in China, which was still an educational PITA. Ca

I’ve made a conscious effort to build our (Kickstarted!) stuff domestically. With the exception of one product in China, which was still an educational PITA. Can’t claim the things are Made in America when a critical component is fabbed overseas, but it’s great to talk with people in my time zone. Going to be even better to drive over to the injection molder to dial in fit and finish. OTOH, the examples you cite and many more are junked not because they’re made in China but due to a lack of software support/remediation. I’m not sure if there’s a business model that incentivizes this, so I’m rooting for the regulations that are slowing coming along on this.

WWLink 3y ago
Ah, software is a big one but I was thinking of a few products that involved no software at all. Stuff like mechanical keyboards, that one PC case that looked like the current Mac Pro, there was some other hardware widget or two that I can't quite remember right now. They all had these neat ideas, spent a lot of money getting it engineered & produced, and oops... the end result wasn't what we hoped it would be...... In some cases they actually shipped the defective product out, because hey, getting something is better than nothing. But it fell pretty far short of what people were hoping they'd get lol. Edit: But I do commend your efforts! Great job!