On Thu, 17 May 2012 08:29:02 -0700, Jack Wilborn <[email protected]> wrote: > Read the information and was wondering if anyone has thought about > creating our own hardware. If people were ok with soldering it > together, maybe it's not too far out to think about a custom design to > house the product? We could make a design that would incorporate > things like higher temps, stronger shielding or other problems we have > found like the running temperature. Just a thought, because we could > customize it have what is needed to do what the Freedom Box was wanted > without going out to some other hardware. Just a thought.
I think the biggest points against selling our own hardware are the start-up costs for the hardware itself. A lesson in this is the OpenPandora project (openpandora.org), which, four years later, is still trying to fulfill its original 4,000 pre-orders. However, that's very different than designing our own open hardware and releasing the spec, which is what I think you were getting at, Jack. I like that, though I'm woefully under-qualified in that area to help with it. I'm definitely no hardware man. Do you have any hardware or designs in mind?
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