List of awesome resources on the interwebs for going to production with a hardware product.
Table of Contents
- Blogs, RSS feeds, and one-off articles
- Components and Procurement
- Design for Manufacturing
- Device Firmware
- Shenzhen
- Teardowns
- Testing and QA
- Standards and Compliances
- License
Blogs, RSS feeds, and one-off articles
- Bolt VC - Blog about hardware products and engineering.
- Bunnie Huang - Blog posts on electronics and hardware.
- Crowd Supply Guide - Guidelines on bringing a product from idea to shipping orders using crowdfunding.
- Talk - How to Bring Your Project from Idea to Reality - Mitch Altman's talk from The Next HOPE(2010). Alternate video link from BruCon (2010).
- List of difference between prototyping and production - Gist of the series of tweets from boldport on prototyping vs production.
- Prototyping vs Production - Series of tweets describing the difference between hardware prototyping and production.
- The Prepared - Weekly newsletter, and not-so-regular podcasts about manufacturing.
- Dragon Innovation - Google Sheets template on BOM format.
- IC Package types - Comprehensive list of all types of packages.
- Indispensability of Good Documentation - Talk about schematics and BOM for electronics manufacturing.
- 11 DIY PCB DFM checks anyone can do - Blog post from Seeed Studio.
- Design for Manufacturing Course - Online course on Design for Manufacturing.
- Fictiv's Injection Molding Video Series - 4-part educational video series
- Plastic is Forever: Designing Tomu's Injection-Molded Case - Talk about things involved in injection moulding cases for electronics.
- DFM for Injection Molding : Star Rapid
- ESP Jumpstart - Software guide for writing production grade code on ESP32 and ESP8266.
- Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software - Book on Design Patterns for Embedded Software Development.
- The Practical Linux Hardening Guide - Provides a high-level overview of hardening GNU/Linux systems.
- Buried Treasure and Map Files - Good understanding of map files
E-Commerce websites for buying components.
- Digi-Key Electronics - Electronic component distributor and a broad-line distributor of board level components.
- Element14 - Distributor for electronic system design, maintenance and repair by Premier Farnell.
- Indian e-commerce stores for components - List of Indian e-commerce stores for procuring components.
- Misumi - Provider of fixed and configurable components for the manufacturing industry.
- Mouser - Online distributor of electronic components .
- RS Components - Distributor of electronics and maintenance products.
- Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen - Book on electronics in Shenzhen.
- Strangeparts - Videos about building things in Shenzhen, factory tours, and more.
Learn from what other people have built.
- Etcher and Etcher Pro - Software and hardware to simultaneously flash images to multiple devices.
- Exclave - A factory test infrastructure, written in Rust.
- Exclave motivations - Blog post describing the throught processing behind making a framework for factory test infrastructure.
- Better IoT - A community-led effort to make a free, accessible, open assessment tool to help design better connected products.
- Checklist for PCB layout and schematic review - An opensource design review checklist.
- Norms to design PCB - List of industry standards for PCB.
- OSHW Certification - Guide to self-certify a product as OSHWA-compliant open source hardware
