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This reminds me a bit of Multiwire, a somewhat unusual circuit manufacturing technique from the 1980s. A machine laid down wires and then encased them in resin
by tdeck 1y ago
This reminds me a bit of Multiwire, a somewhat unusual circuit manufacturing technique from the 1980s. A machine laid down wires and then encased them in resin. The best info I can find is this slide deck:
https://www.swtest.org/swtw_library/2013proc/PDF/SWTW13-22.pdf https://www.swtest.org/swtw_library/2013proc/PDF/SWTW13-22.p...
I believe this technique was used in the Three Rivers PERQ computers. Here is an image of one of their PCBs
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBgQ_n9suBbNh1KBbE6BEcSBLzh27yzWLwC2Jj_kaglskEm4kxB2upfKn1dv9RlFEZoy-HXmiX6WywgDi_tbMLOKHYiuIfrNDBqvOTu298fJXWw47DF-N-jxztG178dNZTxBO097e8oLE/s1600/HPIM0012.JPG https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg...
- orbital-decay 1y agoThat's pretty cool. Why is it not used for prototyping? What are the downsides?