Strange Parts
4 HN recommenders · recommended in 7 months, 2018–2026
26:49 · 3.7M views · Jun 12, 2018
Strange Parts tours JLCPCB's large PCB factory in Huizhou, China, walking through the printed circuit board manufacturing process step by step. It shows the machinery, quality checks and scale behind cheap prototype boards.
Recommended as the best look inside a modern PCB fab, cited in threads on hobby PCB vendors, manufacturing in China and automation.
8 comments from Hacker News
This is very interesting: this video It's a tour of JLCPCB's factory, where they go through all the PCB manufacturing steps. (They just cover the PBC itself, not the assembly service.)
Strange Parts[1] made a great factory tour video of the JLC facility in China for anyone that interested in such things: this video [1] [LINK]
In case anyone want to see how QA looks like in a factory, here's a video this video (the whole vid is worth watching)
Strange parts has some cool inside look at the popular pcb manufacturing fabs such as pcbway and jlcpcb this video
Yeah I didn't say that Chinese people didn't want to go down the same route, infact lifestyle influencers have a better shot there (probably 0.1% better). There is so much overproduction of engineers that you are possibly working a customer support role with that degree. Another reason SASS supposedly never took off there, why pay some company when you can just hire from the batch of overproduced STEM graduates and make any software you need. When I can have an experienced engineer correct my garbage designs for free as part of a manufacturing service you know I am benefiting off of a lucky circumstance that will go away one day: this video