We’ve all seen the power of cheap cloud-hosting, open source software, and incubators to make building a web app dirt cheap, but now the same thing is happening in the world of hardware. The means of production is becoming democratized and product designers are becoming like web developers – agile hardware startups are now popping up to solve our problems IRL. Nick Pinkston of CloudFab describes the vision and also the hardware landscape globally and locally in the Bay Area.

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