THE VIDEO SHELF · pcb manufacturing
Inside a Huge PCB Factory
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as the best look inside a modern PCB fab, cited in threads on hobby PCB vendors, manufacturing in China and automation.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Strange Parts
- Topic
- pcb manufacturing
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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In case anyone want to see how QA looks like in a factory, here's a video [VIDEO] (the whole vid is worth watching)
est on Hacker News · 2018-10
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ddeck on Hacker News · 2018-11
In Etch a circuit board with kitchen suppliesStrange parts has some cool inside look at the popular pcb manufacturing fabs such as pcbway and jlcpcb [VIDEO]
antoniuschan99 on Hacker News · 2021-01
In Foxconn gets green light for $270M factory in Vietnam
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