Transcript DP-electronics - Dangerous Prototypes

Get Your Stuff
Made!
Open Hardware Manufacturing
Photo Sources: Wikipedia, Seeed Studio, Adafruit Industries, SparkFun
About
DangerousPrototypes.com
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A new open hardware project every month
Available from Seeed Studio
Batches of 100-500
Ian
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Started as a maker posting at Instructables.com
Feature writer at DIY Life and Hack a Day blogs
Why Manufacture Open Hardware?
Hardware Hackers
• Etch PCBs
• Solder parts
• Program chips
Community
• Firmware
• Software
• Documentation
• Essential to thriving open hardware
community
• How to get started?
Get Your Stuffs Made
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Licensing
Full
outsourcing
Contract
manufacturin
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DIY assembly
Licensing (The Easy Way)
You
Them
• Front the cash, take the
risk
• Manufacturing and
testing
• Inventory management
• Little control over the • Sales (a website)
quality of your 'brand‘
• Fulfillment (pack & ship)
• Few options to expand
• Returns
• Only the top designs
• Wholesale
make the cut
• Support users
• Get 10% of profits
royalty
Fulfillment (Get Your Feet Wet)
You
Them
(Dangerous Prototypes)
(Seeed Studio)
• Support users
• Manufacturing and
• Front the cash,
testing
take the risk
• Sales (a website)
• Inventory management • Fulfillment (pack & ship)
• Wholesale
• Returns
• Concentrate on design,
but still in charge of
building business
Contract (Big Time)
You
• Front the cash,
take the risk
• Inventory management
• Sales (a website)
• Fulfillment (pack and
ship)
• Returns
• Wholesale
• …Almost everything
Them
• Assemble boards
• Return complete
widgets
Maybe :
• Part/PCB sourcing
• Testing
DIY Assembly (Indie Tech)
You
Everything!
By hand: Small volume and
kits
 Nanode
 Teho Labs’ Arm Devboards
Pick and place: We like cool
machines
 Adafruit, SparkFun
Them
What goes in a
production
package?
The Guts of Getting Stuff Made
Package of Materials
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PCB files / Gerbers
Partlist
Firmware / Software
Test plan
Prototype
Copy
Board Files and Gerbers
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Your PCB and
part placement
Cadsoft Eagle
Gerber files
Board Files and Gerbers
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Your PCB and
part placement
Cadsoft Eagle
Gerber files
Partlist/BOM (stuff on the board)
• Bill of materials
Partlist/BOM (stuff on the board)
• Bill of materials
• Common
Partlist/BOM (stuff on the board)
• Bill of materials
• Specific
Partlist/BOM (stuff on the board)
• Bill of materials
• Common
• Specific
• Try to use a
standard partlist
that most
distributors stock
Firmware and Software
• Anything that goes
into your chip
• HEX, SVF, BIN,
etc
• Programming
instructions and
utilities
Test Plan
• Quick and easy way
to test the
hardware
• As automated as
possible
• Think about it early
Prototype
(Bus Pirate v3)
Copy
• Sell your widget
• No crap, lots of
facts
• Good (action)
pictures
Take Home
How does open hardware
get made?
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Licensing
Fulfillment
Contract
manufacturing
DIY assembly
What do I need to get my
stuff made?
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Design files
(Gerbers/Eagle/etc.
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Prototype
Partlist/BOM
Programming files
and software
Test plan
Copy