Little Bird
Hardware
printed circuit boards
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
12 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score +0.54.
Design: 4 for, 0 againstIdea: 3 for, 0 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Looks great and visually impressive
From 3 comments
Looks amazing, well done.
nullobject on HNThis is awesome!
r0gueSch0lar on HNHey, this is very cool, and excellently-executed. It would be very neat to have clear cases on stuff like this, such as the game controller presented as an example.
lostgame on HN
Useful option for custom keyboards and hobby hardware
From 2 comments
This could be a thing for custom keyboards.
the_gipsy on HNThe market is niche but not necessarily the profit pool. Dell buys PCBs from Foxconn who buys the components in large bidding processes from commodity vendors who probably are…
anbop on HN
Objections
Full-colour PCBs were not the first; others did similar work earlier
From 2 comments
So this is something I've been involved with for the past few years. This is _not_ the first PCB with full-color graphics. A company out of Shenzhen called Makernet was doing…
wanderingjew on HNThe thing is, there have been full color PCBs available in the past, apparently just not recently. I've ordered a few CMYK screened PCBs before, I'll see if I can dig them up…
gothroach on HN
Requests
Information on how to obtain, set up and produce UV colour PCBs
From 1 comment
So this is something I've been involved with for the past few years. This is _not_ the first PCB with full-color graphics. A company out of Shenzhen called Makernet was doing…
wanderingjew on HN
Silkscreen with coloured traces for educational use
From 1 comment
What I'd like to see is a silkscreen design where the traces are coloured, for educational purposes. If every ground point was black, and every V+ trace coloured red, it would…
peterburkimsher on HN
Questions
Is the process ready for mass production and what are the price breaks
From 1 comment
Is this type of technology ready for mass production? What kind of price breaks are we talking about? I’ve worked a lot with exposed pcbs or pcbs that are shown on business fairs…
xondono on HN
How do component silkscreens and fiducial marks work with pick and place
From 1 comment
These look lovely. Can you talk a bit about how the PCBs will work in production? How do component silk screens work? What about fiducial marks? Do machine vision systems (when…
DanBC on HN
Alternatives named
Makernet pad printing and full-colour boards
From 2 comments
So this is something I've been involved with for the past few years. This is _not_ the first PCB with full-color graphics. A company out of Shenzhen called Makernet was doing…
wanderingjew on HNMakernet was a little cagey about their process, but my samples show shading in the color. They were using a full-color process where any (or all) colors could be produced in a…
wanderingjew on HN
Pad printing
From 1 comment
So this is something I've been involved with for the past few years. This is _not_ the first PCB with full-color graphics. A company out of Shenzhen called Makernet was doing…
wanderingjew on HN
Toner transfer PCB decoration
From 1 comment
Neat! This seems like an easy DIY. I have a bunch of experience making PCBs at home using laser printer toner transfer. Next time I have an opportunity to build something, I will…
kazinator on HN
Dithered KiCad bitmap art
From 1 comment
You can also get good results by dithering images and using the default bitmap importer packaged with KiCad! I posted a link to some images below, been using the technique for a…
SuperPaintMan on HN