Open Source Hardware - Bug Labs Solution Providers

In Brad Burnham's post on USV's portfolio company Bug Labs, he talks about the kind of device he'd like to build out of a bug and modules.  It's a very sophisticated tool that would be more likely a system created for a military application, but it sounds feasible to build with the initial platform.  The result might look like Louis Tully's helmet in Ghostbusters, and I'm not really buying the line that individuals will be the ones creating products built on the bug platform, but if they can ship what they've described, it will open up a whole new marketplace for small systems integrators to serve their clients with custom hardware and software solutions that would have been too prohibitive for their customers to build previously.