Building Hardware Solo: The Maker Room Most Builders Skip
The solo-builder conversation is almost entirely about software — code, agents, apps. And every time, the same assumption slips in: that “one person can now ship” only applies to things that compile. That assumption is quietly wrong. The same cost collapse that flattened software shipping is happening on the hardware bench, a few years behind and mostly unnoticed. A single maker with a fifteen-dollar microcontroller, AI-assisted design tools, and on-demand fabrication can now assemble, in a weekend, what once required a team of engineers and a factory. ...