One Man's Software Background Makes Manufacturing Hardware Easy
When Charlie Emery set out to build Spooky Pinball, his Benton, Wis.-based company, he ran into a snag: finding a resource to manufacture the circuit boards that power each of his custom-made, $5,995 pinball machines. His only options were to line up prohibitively expensive one-off production in the U.S. or deal with high minimum orders and suspicious quality from manufacturers overseas.
Julie Soefer
"I was doing everything out of my own pocket," Emery says, "and I only needed 10 circuit boards at first."
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