Going to China!
Posted: January 26th, 2009 | Author: jeevan | Filed under: news | 1 Comment »
Dave and I are going to China next month to tour around and visit electronics and other manufacturing facilities. Bunnie Huang, famed co-creator of the Chumby and author of Hacking the Xbox, is graciously organizing a trip for a small group of hacker-builder types to gain a greater understanding of building electronic doodads in volume.
We have experience manufacturing and assembling with US-based partners in the <1000 unit range, but I’m excited to learn about how the big doggers do it in Asia.
The traveling party is awesome so far – Leah Buechley, Nathan Seidle of Sparkfun, Tom Igoe, Eric Schweikardt (creator of RoBlocks) and Windell Oskay.
Hopefully this will mean more Taco Lab products in the future!
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[...] days and there is already way too much to talk about in one post. As you know, faithful reader, Dave and I are in China thanks to Chumby’s Bunnie Huang and the geek tour ‘09 – a trip which is in large part [...]