What If Your Electronic Parts Were More Like Legos? (electricdollarstore.com)

Long-time Slashdot reader beckman101 writes: This week Electric Dollar Store opened its doors, selling interchangeable postage-stamp sized I2C-based modules for prices between $1.00 and $1.80. The modules include lights, buzzers, counters and sensors — the range is aimed at electronic makers. These aren't manufacturing rejects shipping from Asia — they're assembled, tested and shipped from a small farming town in California, where winter labor is cheap.

All the code for the project is BSD licensed.

The project is a spin-off from the popular open-source I2CDriver hardware debugger.

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My experience

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There is nothing making electronics manufacturing financially impossible in America, and manual labour costs are nowhere as important as some believe.

In fact, there are major electronics makers even in Africa and Pakistan.

America's problem there has nothing to do with costs, but spoiled silver spooned "business elites" who don't count anything, but money falling into their mouths by themselves "a good business case"