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Dangerous Prototypes: Open Source Hardware Seeding
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."
Seeed Studio is by far the least expensive PCB manufacturer I've ever seen. As an electronics hobbyist, I recently built a USB phone tap, and used Seeed's Fusion PCB service for the prototype PCB's.
I only planned to make two devices, but the minimum order quantity is 10 units. Somehow, the price was still less than $25, after shipping. This doesn't seem to be a hobbyist charity, either - they're making money off it, even though it's a great deal.
The PCB's were perfect. No errors that I could find.
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USB Phone Tap
(Yes, there are 3 E's in Seeed)