11 ms·
> provided you supply the labor That's the #1 lesson. You can't consult away all the challenges, especially not the core of your product. As he found out, no o
by jkestner 12y ago
> provided you supply the labor
That's the #1 lesson. You can't consult away all the challenges, especially not the core of your product. As he found out, no one else is going to give a crap like you will, and if you don't have expertise in that area yourself, you're going to pick the wrong people.
I'm still trying to figure out how the BOM got so high without alarms going off.
- sliverstorm 12y agoBOM cost sneaks up on first-time projects. My first big project I was a fanatic about price and I was still shocked how fast it added up. This is one of the ways an experienced hardware engineer can really turn things around from impossible to affordable- they can handle BOM cost as a major design parameter and drive down cost in ways a novice can't.