Most build-your-own-module ambition dies at the breadboard. Alchemy Lab is 12HP around an Electrosmith Daisy — 480 MHz, 64 MB of SDRAM — with six CV jacks fully exposed to an open-source hardware abstraction layer, 102 addressable LEDs, and a delay launching beside it that stretches to sixteen seconds. The detail that decides it: no price, no ship date. Platform first, product later.