Dangerous Prototypes: Open Source Hardware Seeding 48
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MojoKid writes "Dangerous Prototypes is a two-year old organization with the stated mission of producing 'one new open source project every month.' In its nearly two years of existence, DP has created about 30 projects, such as the Flash Destroyer, which tests the limits of solid state storage by writing and verifying a common EEPROM chip, rated for 1 million writes, until it burns out. The projects themselves are being sold by another interesting company, Seeed Studio. Seeed is a contract manufacturing/sales channel for hire. It helps hardware designers get their ideas manufactured in China and sold worldwide with a service called Propagate for manufacturing small quantities (100+) of open source hardware."
Can you say... (Score:2, Insightful)
Can you say "slashvertisement"? I think this is the most blatant ad I've seen on slashdot since forever.
Re:DP and Seeedstudio (Score:4, Insightful)
Hey you anti-Chinese posters! *THIS* (the parent) is what a useful post looks like.
The parent was informative and useful. It gave reasons to not use one of the companies, and offered an alternative. (As well as admitting the real defect in the offering...price. But a good trade-off for reasonable quality.)