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# Awesome Hardware Production [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge.svg)](https://awesome.re)



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](#blogs-rss-feeds-and-one-off-articles)

- [Components and Procurement](#components-and-procurement)

- [Design for Manufacturing](#design-for-manufacturing)

- [Device Firmware](#device-firmware)

- [Shenzhen](#shenzhen)

- [Teardowns](#teardowns)

- [Testing and QA](#testing-and-qa)

- [Standards and Compliances](#standards-and-compliances)

- [License](#license)



## General



Blogs, RSS feeds, and one-off articles



- [Bolt VC](https://blog.bolt.io) - Blog about hardware products and engineering.

- [Bunnie Huang](https://www.bunniestudios.com) - Blog posts on electronics and hardware.

- [Crowd Supply Guide](https://www.crowdsupply.com/guide) - Guidelines on bringing a product from idea to shipping orders using crowdfunding.

- [Talk - How to Bring Your Project from Idea to Reality](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh4mrjsIwoo) - Mitch Altman's talk from The Next HOPE(2010). Alternate [video link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ynhm-4XMusE) from BruCon (2010).

- [List of difference between prototyping and production](https://gist.github.com/anujdeshpande/8e8d533d6bc16ab40667c85aff171768) - Gist of the series of tweets from boldport on prototyping vs production.

- [Prototyping vs Production](https://twitter.com/boldport/status/727162444724985857) - Series of tweets describing the difference between hardware prototyping and production.

- [The Prepared](https://theprepared.org/features) - Weekly newsletter, and not-so-regular podcasts about manufacturing.



## Components and Procurement



- [Dragon Innovation](https://www.dragoninnovation.com/dragon-standard-bom) - Google Sheets template on BOM format.

- [IC Package types](https://eesemi.com/ic-package-types.htm) -  Comprehensive list of all types of packages.

- [Indispensability of Good Documentation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV_a5KIogCc) - Talk about schematics and BOM for electronics manufacturing.



## Design for Manufacturing



- [11 DIY PCB DFM checks anyone can do](https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2019/04/05/11-do-it-yourself-pcb-design-for-manufacture-checks-anyone-can-do/) - Blog post from Seeed Studio.

- [Design for Manufacturing Course](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNTXUUIxHyNwrlAh2ZkaMTSBrgk86wC-a) -

Online course on Design for Manufacturing.

- [Fictiv's Injection Molding Video Series](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6ocPzovL66GD4CJSIgXVFioP4xqDQj1J) - 4-part educational video series

- [Plastic is Forever: Designing Tomu's Injection-Molded Case](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br5Ieo8USIw) - Talk about things involved in injection moulding cases for electronics.

- [DFM for Injection Molding : Star Rapid](https://www.starrapid.com/blog/dfm-improve-plastic-injection-molding/)



## Device Firmware



- [ESP Jumpstart](https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-jumpstart/en/latest/introduction.html) - Software guide for writing production grade code on ESP32 and ESP8266.

- [Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software](https://www.amazon.com/Making-Embedded-Systems-Patterns-Software-ebook/dp/B005ZTO0LG) - Book on Design Patterns for Embedded Software Development.

- [The Practical Linux Hardening Guide](https://github.com/trimstray/the-practical-linux-hardening-guide) - Provides a high-level overview of hardening GNU/Linux systems.

- [Buried Treasure and Map Files](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRXLUcbJIxY) - Good understanding of map files



## Online Stores



E-Commerce websites for buying components.



- [Digi-Key Electronics](https://www.digikey.com/) - Electronic component distributor and a broad-line distributor of board level components.

- [Element14](https://element14.com) - Distributor for electronic system design, maintenance and repair by Premier Farnell.

- [Indian e-commerce stores for components](https://gist.github.com/anujdeshpande/5e9475a0c4cefebe1c5288576171a6ca) - List of Indian e-commerce stores for procuring components.

- [Misumi](https://www.misumi-ec.com) - Provider of fixed and configurable components for the manufacturing industry.

- [Mouser](https://www.mouser.com/) - Online distributor of electronic components .

- [RS Components](http://www.rs-online.com/) - Distributor of electronics and maintenance products.



## Shenzhen



- [Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen](https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/the-essential-guide-to-electronics-in-shenzhen) - Book on electronics in Shenzhen.

- [Strangeparts](https://strangeparts.com) - Videos about building things in Shenzhen, factory tours, and more.



## Teardowns



Learn from what other people have built.



- [Dave Jones aka EEVBlog](https://www.eevblog.com/teardowns/)

- [Fictiv](https://www.fictiv.com/blog/topics/teardowns)

- [iFixit](https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown)



## Testing and QA



- [Etcher and Etcher Pro](https://www.balena.io/etcher/pro/) - Software and hardware to simultaneously flash images to multiple devices.

- [Exclave](https://github.com/exclave/exclave) - A factory test infrastructure, written in Rust.

- [Exclave motivations](https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=5450) - Blog post describing the throught processing behind making a framework for factory test infrastructure.



## Standards and Compliances



- [Better IoT](http://betteriot.org) - 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](https://github.com/azonenberg/pcb-checklist) - An opensource design review checklist.

- [Norms to design PCB](https://www.aldelta.com.co/blog-diseno-con-normas-y-certificaciones/normas-pcb-y-electronica/) - List of industry standards for PCB.

- [OSHW Certification](https://certification.oshwa.org/process.html) - Guide to self-certify a product as OSHWA-compliant open source hardware



## License



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