Circuit Board Design For a Small Startup?

Posted by kdawson on Friday March 27, 2009 @02:06AM from the board-games dept.

Patrick Bowman writes "I'm with a small (okay, it's just me) startup planning a camera-related USB device for the mass market. It's probably patentable so I can't give details. I can handle the software but have no hardware design or manufacturing experience. Does anyone have any recommendations for a company to handle the PCB design and manufacture? Instead of starting from scratch I've also considered approaching one of the companies (mostly in China) that make similar devices and asking them to modify their hardware for my requirements, and to provide their source for me to modify. Has anyone taken this route before? How did it work for you?"

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Re:Good luck with IP if working with the Chinese by tiananmen+tank+man · 2009-03-27 02:29 · Score: 0, Troll

The person that posed this question to slashdot knows this because he said he is looking into patenting his idea. Yet he is wanting to copy/modifiy someone else's design and is hopping the Chinese contact will just give him the source for the design. wow, some kind of hypacrite he is.