Manufacturing In China Hack Chat

“Open source developer Jesse Vincent decided that messing around with a new keyboard design was a better thing to spend time on than whatever he was supposed to be doing, and thus Keyboardio was born.”

Hackaday's announcement and writeup of the live Hack Chat featuring Jesse Vincent of Keyboardio on offshore manufacturing in China — frames Vincent as someone who has progressed further than most in turning an open-source project into a working hardware company.