BullEngineer:
I'm going to get my JD and hopefully become a patent lawyer. my undergrad was mechanical engineering.Good points, would like to see some better grade devices from arduino's side.
Might be good to include some manufacturing economics in your education. Tesla and any other capable manufacture of anything will contract out all component manufacturing they can do. That way they don't have to carry expensive personnel on their books and they can postpone paying for the R&D and for the training of the engineers. And they can bitch about the subassembly and hold up payment.
Better yet, take some courses a corporate controller might take.
Tesla only writes the specifications for the devices and accepts responsibility only when it works.
Remember the VW Diesel fiasco? They paid me $6800 to rework the emissions on my Jetta TDI. And then Bosch sent me a check for $200 because they did all the software and knew better that to let VW get away with cheating, but did it anyway.
Same with Boeing Airplane. Almost all is assemblies are subcontracted.
You will see a different Arduino when sales stop.
Paul