In theory, there are people out there who can provide that service - Seeed, Sparkfun, and Adafruit are a few, but many could take a proof of concept and bring it to market.
The question is there limited use of those channels today in GOSH? is it:
- The existing channels (sparkfun, seeeed, etc.) are not a good fit for our types of products (markets too small, profit too low, they don’t understand or effectively access our users, etc.)?
- Is it that the GOSH community is not informed enough or motivated enough to take it to that stage?
- Is it that the market appears small or is unclear because we haven’t defined the value proposition for Open Science Hardware, so we don’t go that route?
Depending on that answer to that question, a GOSH focused ‘commercialization’ (take that term loosely here) initiative, where proof of concept devices were developed into something a mass market (or at least a developer kit) could be the right answer.
I’d love other opinions / discussion on this also.