Built by Soldered. Distributed by Mouser.
Two names the hardware world already trusts, now behind AUTEUR.
AUTEUR started as a prototype I built by hand. The version you'll own is built by Soldered Electronics and distributed by Mouser Electronics.
I've said from the start that I wanted AUTEUR to feel like a company-made instrument and not a one-person passion project, even though for most of its life it has been exactly that. A prototype proves an idea. Getting hundreds of identical units built, tested, and delivered to the right doors is a different job entirely, and it's the job most crowdfunded hardware gets wrong.
So here's who is doing it with us.
Soldered builds it
Soldered is a Croatian electronics company that has been designing and building open-source hardware since 2013. If you've spent any time in the e-paper world you know their Inkplate boards, which makers and engineers use everywhere. Everything they make is designed and manufactured in Croatia, inside the European Union.
My prototype runs on three separate boards wired together. Soldered is folding all of that into a single integrated PCB that drives the e-paper display and runs the writing software. Fewer boards means fewer connectors, fewer failure points, and a device that's built the same way every single time.
The display panels are recovered from retired e-readers. The screen you write on is hardware that would otherwise have ended up in a landfill, and I like that a lot.
AUTEUR is also part of the Soldered Inkubator on Crowd Supply.
Mouser ships it
Mouser Electronics is a global authorized distributor of electronic components, headquartered in Mansfield, Texas. Engineers and manufacturers rely on them to get parts delivered anywhere in the world. Mouser is part of TTI, a Berkshire Hathaway company.
Mouser has also owned Crowd Supply since 2018, which is where AUTEUR's campaign lives. With Mouser as our distribution partner, AUTEUR moves through the same warehouses and shipping network that serve engineers worldwide.
What it means for you
The hard part of hardware isn't the prototype. It's everything after it. We picked partners who already do that part for a living: Soldered builds the electronics, Mouser moves them.
That leaves me free to keep obsessing over the things that make AUTEUR worth owning. The keyboard. The typography. The software you write in. Those are mine, and they're not going anywhere.
The full rundown on both partners lives on the Partners page.
Onward!