Network Centric Manufacturing – Via China

Electronic News (10/22, Conner) – Andrew Huang is the designer of Chumby [San Diego, CA], an open-source-hardware device that serves as a customizable interface to the Internet and must compete with devices manufactured by high-volume production lines feeding goods to big-box retailers. He is among the first of a new breed of small-hardware-system entrepreneurs using China’s electronics supply chain. Huang recently told EDN what he has learned in the process.