I had to replace a laptop keyboard the other day and I'm always amazed at the tiny connectors that join all the components. The screen connects to the motherboard with such a small connector and the pins are so small and everything has to be so precise. The machines that make these things must be even more precise. How do they handle such small metal tabs and make the wire connections to these tabs and inject plastic around them so accurately to make such a perfect part? Anyone with knowledge or experience in manufacturing these micro parts care to share any stories?
They use magic to make them!
Seriously, no idea! It amazes me too!
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke
So, yeah.
Capacitors:
Resistors:
PCBs
However the main component is definitely ’magic’.
larryd,
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freakdaddy:
to make such a perfect part?
I have seen enough devices bricked through -not-so-perfect-connectors on displays or digitizers.
Keebler Elves make them in Santa's workshop on off season.....
And how do you suppose they made watches for the last couple of centuries?
Paul__B:
And how do you suppose they made watches for the last couple of centuries?
And hearing aids!
People who make machines are clever, basically, and they learn from mistakes and progress by stepwise refinement of techniques and materials. Did you know the current minimum feature size in CPU chips is
5 nanometres? That's 1% of the wavelength of green light...
RIN67630:
And hearing aids!
Ah yes, the "pencil" valves they used in those were quite impressive!
Along with "nuvistors".
MarkT:
That's 1% of the wavelength of green light...
...and the boundary between UV and X-rays. :o
Paul__B:
Ah yes, the "pencil" valves they used in those were quite impressive!Along with "nuvistors".
Interesting!
I remember a UK electronics magazine (possibly Practical Electronics) ran an April 1st story about Vacuum Voltage Level Expanders, which they said was a new technology discovered by accident by astronauts on the space shuttle.
Sounds about right.
April first.
Astronauts on the space shuttle.
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