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Notes from the bench.

Campaign post-mortems, manufacturing lessons and the occasional correction — written here first, in full, with the numbers attached.

  1. · 3 min read · MAKERphone 2.0

    Why it arrives as parts

    The hour where the board is soldered and nothing works yet is the entire product. Taking it out would make the phone easier to sell — and worth considerably less.

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  2. · 2 min read · Kickstarter

    Funded in 49 minutes

    MAKERphone 2.0 opened on Kickstarter on a Thursday afternoon and was fully funded 49 minutes later. A thank you to everybody who made that happen — and to the people who have been here since 2017.

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