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i have an enormous amount of respect for PCB fab workers. PCBs are ubiquitous a… | |
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ASICs exist in the popular consciousness as the pinnacle of human microfabricat… | |
Post #AwPLocrZ4zWpItOaLg by [email protected] | |
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@whitequark Connectors and other mechanical parts like switches are pretty amaz… | |
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i have put a small amount of hours into fabricating PCBs at home using photolit… | |
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@karotte yeah electromechanics is bonkers | |
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on top of that, running a successful PCBA business is incredibly hard. every pr… | |
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anyone who survives in the electronics fabrication business is precious, full s… | |
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@whitequark thanks for the perspectivewe've heard a lot of "insider&qu… | |
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@r oh, i'm fairly well aware of those things (i haven't personally had … | |
Post #AwPNElVBgLpta3xNhY by [email protected] | |
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@r ... also, most commercial products today are designed and sold on a "go… | |
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@whitequark oh certainlythere's the anecdote we shared... several past live… | |
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@r yep! | |
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@whitequark @r Yeah it always annoys me when people equate Chinese manufacturin… | |
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@azonenberg @r it tells on the person who says it because it's _them_ who o… | |
Post #AwPOpOiPSuq3ZsAmmm by [email protected] | |
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@azonenberg @r it was also ridiculously cheap | |
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@whitequark @r i mean copper in particular comes in many different grades of he… | |
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@whitequark @azonenberg @r you've found the opposite of Ea-Nasir, lol | |
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@azonenberg @r yes and i was buying HVACR copper tubing specifically, which sho… | |
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learning about LCD manufacturing processes makes me amazed at the variety of te… | |
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@jack also ASICs can be in sub-cent-per-piece range, yeah! | |
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@whitequark yup, I did a 160-board assembly run, and ended up with exactly 4 bo… | |
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@jpm yep. and realistically, were your batch larger they'd adjust their pro… | |
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@whitequark @r Nice.Meanwhile, I managed to find the worst soldering iron known… | |
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@azonenberg @whitequark > apliu street抵死, you definitely had it coming t… | |
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@r @whitequark I'm not a HK local and had no idea where the good stuff was.… | |
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@azonenberg @whitequark ooookay, that at least makes sense, we can totally see … | |
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@r @azonenberg what does 抵死 mean in this context | |
Post #AwPVhkGOAL2ploMf4K by [email protected] | |
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@whitequark exactly. I suspect the machine-strike was probably on the first boa… | |
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@whitequark I toured a flexible PCB fab in China once. Their tooling for each b… | |
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@jrward the chemicals are the easy part (i had those on hand no problem); the h… | |
Post #AwPY8BuyAYRgyc5GjY by [email protected] | |
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@whitequark and a lot of potential exposure to toxic chemicals | |
Post #AwPYBEZYkucW4wWL6O by [email protected] | |
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@smellsofbikes very true yes | |
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@whitequark Except for a small number of weird nerds, it seems like people who … | |
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@whitequark @smellsofbikesDeja vu re: Motorola wafer fab facility next to its s… | |
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@claralistensprechen5th @smellsofbikes PCB fabs are generally nowhere as bad, b… | |
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@whitequark @claralistensprechen5th A local one to me burned when one of their … | |
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@whitequark I have several acronyms to read about now, thanks | |
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@whitequark I’ve actually been meaning to find a look/tour into fabs with sma… | |
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@whitequark I am so thankful that today we can make PCBs dirt cheap! 30 years a… | |
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@[email protected] You can cheat and skip the headaches of vias metali… | |
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@niconiconi yep, I've heard of rivets but didn't use them because awful |