Posted by chipweinberger 2 days ago
When I want to record for real, I'm going to use my DAW. But I want a way to quickly record tracks and this looks pretty great.
Would love to hear more on that but I suppose the omission is not an accident.
For reasons other commentors have already mentioned-scale, logistics, revisions. And for reasons they havent mentioned-cash flow
What understanding about hardware did you start with, and what tools did you use to learn what you didn’t already know?
Electronics, PCBs, CAD, injection molding was all new to me.
Maybe I'll write an article about that.
This is (literally) none of my business, but would you consider a cut down or basic open source version (hardware and software, with open software running in the proper hardware). Yes it'll be cloned by factories, and yes it will cut into sales no matter what proponents claim. (And yes it's probably more work than I imagine it is).
But also yes, it'll be genuine open hardware and might out live your interest in the project.
If you want a Free work-alike, why don't /you/ put in the work and make it happen?
I figure that the factory is exactly the adversary in the whole threat model? So why give them the keys to the castle so they can moonlight their own genuine batch?
You probably aren't going to do this whole rigmarole for small runs of devices like in the OP.
Serious question: why?
A local-only device with no telemetry can probably skip some of those
There was another post, a year or two ago, about someone that really tried to manufacture a webcam, and gave up.
I spent my career at hardware companies.
Glad this worked out, but past performance is no guarantee of future success...
I was originally planning to do 4000 units as my first run. Boy I'm glad I started to run out of money and cut it way back. That would have been way too much as a first run.