The Factory Floor

January 29, 2013 12:19 PM

Andrew "bunnie" Huang (previously) offered MIT students insight on how to bring electronic designs from paper to manufactured product. He summarized the process in a four part series: The Quotation, On Design for Manufacturing, Industrial Design for Startups, and Picking (and Maintaining) a Partner.

Bonus: He's been working on an interesting ARM laptop design, FPGA included.

posted by rider (7 comments total)

(Parts of his posts are heavy on electrical engineering jargon, but can safely be skipped, I think. The later posts have less of that sort of detail.)
posted by rider at 12:19 PM on January 29, 2013

Aside from being a prolific engineer, bunnie is a great reality check for anyone that has ever whipped together a prototype circuit and thought "oh yeah, the hard work is done".

I always love reading his stuff.
posted by JoeZydeco at 12:43 PM on January 29, 2013

This looks amazing - can't wait to read them. I've been skirting and noticing the gap between DIY and prototyping and manufacturing for a while now.
posted by ianhattwick at 12:49 PM on January 29, 2013

He left out the last step: Write the market requirements.
posted by ZenMasterThis at 1:00 PM on January 29, 2013 [1 favorite]

This is great, thanks.
posted by blahblahblah at 2:33 PM on January 29, 2013

Things like this remind me that I am solidly a mid-level geek -- this kind of stuff is beyond me. I've thought about getting involved in hardware hacking, but I don't have the time, and really don't have the money, at the moment.

Makes for interesting reading though. Interesting enough to make me think maybe some day....
posted by JHarris at 2:53 PM on January 29, 2013 [1 favorite]

Funny to see this here today, I just heard him address the Linux Conference in Canberra this morning.
posted by HiroProtagonist at 9:21 PM on January 30, 2013