Hello! This white paper came up in a chat discussion about trying to sell kits/products online in a distributed way. Distributed Manufacturing of Open Hardware - A Report of the Open Hardware Distribution & Documentation Working Group
This paper documents an attempt to explore sustainable, generalizable ways to build the infrastructure necessary to manufacture and distribute open hardware around the world. It is the result of an Open Hardware Distribution & Documentation Working Group convened by a small group of developers and practitioners to discuss building production infrastructure, using the OpenFlexure Microscope as a case study. For a year extending across 2020 and 2021, the working group discussed ways to refine the microscope from a one-off build that had been replicated by many different builders to hardware that could be manufactured and distributed by partners worldwide.
Thanks for sharing @julianstirling !