I made a lot of progress with building open source hardware today. Took several hours (and is still ongoing).
I'm not talking about the sexy, fun, development work. No, I mean I hand assembled several units and I test every single one before I ship it out.
I rarely find any defects, but I don't want a single customer to get a unit that has any issues. Reputations take a long time to build and are so easy to damage, it's worth the extra time investment.
#OpenSource #hardware #OpenHardware #FOSS
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