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WarmWash • today at 2:10 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I do a fair bit of electronics manufacturing and excited to see this pop up.

However I have my reservations because China is incredibly cheap, incredibly fast, and incredibly skilled. Our domestic made boards tend to be lower quality with more mistakes than Chinese made ones (while also costing up to 50x more).

I'll run some designs through this later, and I really hope it is broadly viable (not just unique niches that fit their tooling)


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seddona • today at 7:25 PM

China is super impressive for sure. I agree the existing domestic options are not great and we founded CircuitHub to fix that :-)

red_candle_wax • today at 2:47 PM

Is all this stuff entirely machines nowadays, or do people do it by hand still?

I remember documentaries from the 90s/00s showing Chinese factories with people hand soldering stuff onto PCBs, but most components used in electronics seems way too small for that.

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