For any decent scale project hardware costs (chips, PCBs, assembly, conenctors) ...

		friendzis on Dec 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: To elaborate on why open-source hardware is hard For any decent scale project hardware costs (chips, PCBs, assembly, conenctors) shadow developement costs. While in software it is appropriate to have large libraries/frameworks with batteries-included, in hardware it is much cheaper to stitch together custom solution out of very specialized circuits.

Exactly, the "specialized circuits" is the part that should be open-sourced.