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tdeckyesterday at 8:15 PM1 replyview on HN

This reminds me a bit of Multiwire, a somewhat unusual circuit manufacturing technique from the 1980s. A machine laid down wires and then encased them in resin. The best info I can find is this slide deck:

https://www.swtest.org/swtw_library/2013proc/PDF/SWTW13-22.p...

I believe this technique was used in the Three Rivers PERQ computers. Here is an image of one of their PCBs https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg...


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orbital-decaytoday at 9:36 AM

That's pretty cool. Why is it not used for prototyping? What are the downsides?