Everyone, thank you for the resources and suggestions! Some specific replies...
@sleemanj - definitely gonna try some of those. Our clone doesn't have many (any?) of the Ruggeduino's features, so some of those could be pretty useful!
@SeanB - I like this idea, because it's something that an intermediate hobbyist might do by accident. Ideally, I'd like to see a failure method that happens on the breadboard
@mechatrommer - Soon!
We have nine units under construction for demos/beta testing/reviews/so forth. Those are finished tomorrow, Destructive testing on thursday, probably start really sharing the project early next week.
@retrolefty - So, i noticed that during the design, actually. I went ahead and tied the 3V3 output of the FTDI to the 3V3 bus, but I also have a MIC5205 supplying 3V3. It's enough to try, for sure!
Thanks again everybody!! I'll post an update this weekend. We'll record it all, so if we find something interesting I'll post it here! Not only that, I think that if we find some really nasty way to fail it, we'll try to do it to an Uno R3 as well just for shits.
Talk soon! Thanks!