Thinking in Public

Blog

Build logs, process notes, and essays on open hardware. Written as we go.

Jun 2025
Process

Why We Publish Tolerances Before Shipping

Most manufacturers treat tolerance specs as proprietary. We think that is backwards. Here is why we publish them first and what it has taught us about our own quality standards.

May 2025
Open Hardware

CERN OHL-S vs. CERN OHL-W: Choosing Strongly Reciprocal

We chose the Strongly Reciprocal variant of the CERN Open Hardware License. This is what that means in practice and why the weaker variant was not enough.

Apr 2025
Founding

On Starting Chouhan Industries

What we are building, why we are building it in the open, and what we believe about the future of hardware manufacturing.