The MIDI Recorder That Taught A Maker Everything
Chip Weinberger sold two thousand five hundred MIDI recorders and learned something along the way: hardware is not as hard as the software world makes it seem. That's the headline from his article, and it's the kind of thing that gets people nodding at two in the morning. We all know someone who learned to code and then spent years being terrified of anything with a soldering iron. Turns out the supply chain is mostly just asking questions and filling out forms. Two thousand five hundred units of a physical product means you have a manufacturer, you have parts sourcing, you have logistics, and you still have to sell them. That is a completely different skill tree than pushing commits to a repo. The HN thread on this one hit a score of three hundred and eighty one, which tells me a lot of developers are quietly thinking about building something you can hold in your hand. The article's live now, we'll link it.