An Open Hardware Company Manufactures Your Electronics Idea

SeeedStudio.com is our website of the month.

By Colleen Park Posted 02.07.2013 at 6:48 pm 0 Comments

Open Hardware Courtesy SeeedStudio.com

You just designed the perfect circuit board but don’t have the cash to fund its manufacture. Seeed Studio, an “open hardware” company in Shenzhen, China, helps tinkerers move their concepts onto the assembly line. Inventors can submit an electronics schematic to Seeed for review; a community of inventors and customers then improves the design with feedback. If interest is high, Seeed builds the device, sells it online, and shares its profits with the inventor.

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