Machines making machines? I felt like I've seen this before... in a movie series called Terminator.

This is also a good chicken and egg analogy.

This isn't a total video of a motherboard being made. It is only the pick and place machine part. Making the bare board, the solder stenciling, oven reflow, and inspection parts are all missing. Also, This doesn't really look like a computer motherboard, more like a generic, custom circuit board.

Still cool though.

>> ^Stingray:

Machines making machines? I felt like I've seen this before... in a movie series called Terminator.


no you are thinking of wily wonka.

So what kind of motherboard creates the motherboard?

focus damnit!!!

Chinese children do it way cheaper.

>> ^maximillian:

Also, This doesn't really look like a computer motherboard, more like a generic, custom circuit board.
Still cool though.

It's defiantly not a standard board, double-sided mating surfaces for interconnects, integrated cpu, gpu, and onboard prom and ram chips probably means it's for a notebook, eeepc, or some type of tablet.


One thing I miss working in the industry was the smell, there's something unique about the smell of a freshly coated board just having been hot-soldiered. Of course now with all the whining they've switched to lead free. Wonder what the failure rate based on hot-flexing and tinning is. If it's under 15% I'll be surprised. I'll say it's at least 10%, which is a miserable failure.

I mean come on, it's not like people chew on motherboards. Replacing a tried and tested technology with something inferior and without proper testing is setting you up for failure. Well I guess we can blame environmentalists and insane politicians for that one.