Arduino lessons learned

Lessons Learned

Dont make somethingyou dont use yourself

Know who youre making it for

Know what you want out of it

Make projects,not platforms

Respect the intelligence of the beginner

Experts are not the bestadvisors when you want to make tools for beginners

Good hardware, goodsoftware, good explanationand generous users make a great project

Document what you make

Change is painful

Expect resistance

...and conspiracy theories...

Never ascribe to malicewhat can be explained with stupidity.

If nobody complainsyou’re doing something wrong

Including people is hard (but necessary)

If you are ﬁve people inthree different countries, you are a multinational company

If youre not prepared for someone else to adapt your work, dont share it online

If youre not prepared for someone else to improve your work, dont share it online

If youre not prepared for someone else to clone your work, dont share it online

If youre not prepared for someone else to trash your work, dont share it online

Organizing a startup is alot harder once the idea has traction

You cant run a startup part-time

Mistakes will getinstitutionalized

Pick your name carefully

*duino is not creative

Especially if your boardis not even compatible

Register every domain that you can

Hire a lawyer, you don’tknow why but she does

Be careful whensomebody is just too eager to help you

Even your friends might become a competitor

It’s good to be friends, better if it’s in writing

Open source software doesnt necessarily translate into a business model...

Open source hardware has to.

If a defective boardmakes it through QA...

...it will be delivered to the most vocal customer...

...who will publishelectron microscope pictures of it...

...pointing at every atom that is out of place...

...Twittering that everyboard you ever made is seriously ﬂawed...

..whose follower will robotically RT and in 8hours someone will declare your company doomed.

Your most importantcustomers are not the most vocal ones

You might need to travelthe world to meet them

but, most of all

Don’t let the fact thatyou don’t know whatyou’re doing stop you

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Arduino lessons learned

by Bryce Roberts on Sep 19, 2011

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