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>Prototyping requires a back and forth costing many thousands of dollars. This is a problem that is being rapidly solved in the OSHW community, with low cost P
by TD-Linux 12y ago
>Prototyping requires a back and forth costing many thousands of dollars.
This is a problem that is being rapidly solved in the OSHW community, with low cost PCB prototyping services such as OSH Park and similar. Something of the complexity of a laptop motherboard may still be in the thousands of dollars range, but a large variety of hardware is now incredibly affordable.
- striking 12y agoEven something like a low-cost phone would fall under this. Unless you're making a simple control board for a physical process, OSH Park won't cut it. And of course RMS is talking about computing. Anything at the general computer level is probably not going to work out unless it's really tiny.
- bcg1 12y agoRMS thinks on much longer timeline than many of us.