http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/news.php?id=240
"Bunnie Huang (in the middle) works for Chumby. Cumby wanted to get their device made, so Bunnie started looking for a company that could build the Chumby (a rather complex device). The problem is that there is no one factory that could build the device from start to finish.
"Instead, Bunnie discovered PCH - a company that gets all the parts made from various manufacturers and gets the final product delivered. PCH is run by a handful of wonderfully fun Irishmen. Joe, Liam, Baz (Melborne!), and the rest of the PCH crew where fantastic in taking care of us and showing us a fair and balanced view into what it takes to 'get a widget made'. The following is a fairly brief collection of pictures and videos from the trip. It was truly eye-opening."
(((Via Chris Anderson, who, besides editing WIRED, is manufacturing personal open-source cruise missiles for fun. I dunno, I like offshored heavy industry as well as the next guy, but I look at this stuff and I see an Arabian-Nights level of political and economic frailty. Who are these people and why did they put their entire capacity to do anything physical on the far side of the planet?)))
