"Designing for mass manufacturing is essentially impossible to learn without actually building several products." I'm sure that is true. Possibly because the p

"Designing for mass manufacturing is essentially impossible to learn without actually building several products." I'm sure that is true. Possibly because the people with experience of this come from a different community (established consumer electronics) than some of the new people coming onto hardware via the startup scene. Bunnie Huang recently wrote a series of detailed blog posts about how to take prototypes to manufacturing in China. There is a lot of hard-won knowledge in them. Part 1: The Quotation (or, How to Make a BOM) http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=2812 http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=2812 Part 2: On Design for Manufacturing http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=2831 http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=2831 Part 3: Industrial Design for Startups http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=2850 http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=2850 Part 4: Picking (and Maintaining) a Partner http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=2911 http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=2911