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Why we built OpenForge
Two years ago I spent three weekends trying to build a line-following robot car. The first weekend was research — what chassis, what motors, what sensor? The second was sourcing — Amazon, AliExpress, Pollin, reichelt, and waiting for parts. The third was assembly and discovering that the motors I had ordered were the wrong voltage.That third weekend is when OpenForge was born. Not as a company, but as an idea: what if someone had already done the research, sourced the parts, and packaged them together — so you could get... Read more...