protecting IP from the chinese factories is not too difficult. Firstly you can't tell them what the PCB is, or what it does. give a highly obfuscated silk screen to them with basically no useful information on it other than what a PickNPlace machine needed ot be able to populate it with components. On top of that, if you have a MCU on it, you can give them a default factory diagnostics firmware, not the firmware which actually does the functions of the product.@mdszy@mastodon.technology