Awesome Hardware Production

List of awesome resources on the interwebs for going to production with a hardware product.

Table of Contents

General

Blogs, RSS feeds, and one-off articles

Bolt VC - Blog about hardware products and engineering.
Bunnie Huang - Blog posts on electronics and hardware.
Crowd Supply Guide - Guidelines on bringing a product from idea to shipping orders using crowdfunding.
Talk - How to Bring Your Project from Idea to Reality - Mitch Altman's talk from The Next HOPE(2010). Alternate video link from BruCon (2010).
List of difference between prototyping and production - Gist of the series of tweets from boldport on prototyping vs production.
Prototyping vs Production - Series of tweets describing the difference between hardware prototyping and production.
The Prepared - Weekly newsletter, and not-so-regular podcasts about manufacturing.

Dragon Innovation - Google Sheets template on BOM format.
IC Package types - Comprehensive list of all types of packages.
Indispensability of Good Documentation - Talk about schematics and BOM for electronics manufacturing.

ESP Jumpstart - Software guide for writing production grade code on ESP32 and ESP8266.
Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software - Book on Design Patterns for Embedded Software Development.
The Practical Linux Hardening Guide - Provides a high-level overview of hardening GNU/Linux systems.
Buried Treasure and Map Files - Good understanding of map files

E-Commerce websites for buying components.

Digi-Key Electronics - Electronic component distributor and a broad-line distributor of board level components.
Element14 - Distributor for electronic system design, maintenance and repair by Premier Farnell.
Indian e-commerce stores for components - List of Indian e-commerce stores for procuring components.
Misumi - Provider of fixed and configurable components for the manufacturing industry.
Mouser - Online distributor of electronic components .
RS Components - Distributor of electronics and maintenance products.

Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen - Book on electronics in Shenzhen.
Strangeparts - Videos about building things in Shenzhen, factory tours, and more.

Learn from what other people have built.

Etcher and Etcher Pro - Software and hardware to simultaneously flash images to multiple devices.
Exclave - A factory test infrastructure, written in Rust.
Exclave motivations - Blog post describing the throught processing behind making a framework for factory test infrastructure.

Better IoT - 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 - An opensource design review checklist.
Norms to design PCB - List of industry standards for PCB.
OSHW Certification - Guide to self-certify a product as OSHWA-compliant open source hardware