u/jellyspreader

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3y9sTUDEYk

Why is electronics manufacturing hard? Can it ever be made easy and more accessible? What will it take to relocate industrial production to Europe?

>We share with you what we learned when we spent more than 1 year setting up our own production line in our office in Hamburg. Turns out a lot of the difficulties are rarely talked about or hidden behind "manufacturing is high CAPEX".

>Come and learn with us the nitty gritty details of batch reflow ovens, stencil printing at scale, and how OpenPnP is a key enabler in our process. While we are far from done with this work, we hope to see others replicate it and collectively reclaim the ownership of the means of electronics production.

>Our industry needs a reboot as well, it no longer serves the people.

>Our work is based on our belief that high-quality high-mix/low volume manufacturing of electronics in Europe is economically viable and accessible to small companies with a lower-than-expected up-front investment.

>We believe that relocation of industry to Europe depends on small innovative companies, and will not come from slow and bloated industry giants whose products are victims of enshittification and maximum profit extraction.

>By using open-source hardware and software whenever possible, we are attempting to set up our own production operation in Hamburg and we want to share the solutions and enable others to do the same and collectively reclaim ownership of the means of production.

>We will cover:
- How we acquired and set up production machines, their costs, and our learnings
- Quirks of paste printing and reflow soldering at scale (up to 50 batches a day)
- Component inventory, tracking, DfM, etc.
- How OpenPnP is a key enabler of our prcesses
- Our proposed changes to OpenPnP
- Our work integrated Siemens Siplace Feeders in OpenPnP

Augustin Bielefeld and Alexander Willer - 2025-12-28

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Every single elective omg. It'd be great if the system could track and hide those courses from users if we're not able to select them. If it wasn't tedious enough, it sends you back to the start like a roguelike after every rejected selection.

I have a list of abt 100 electives to pick from, that filter down to like 12 I can actually register in, and only 2 I actually want that fit in my schedule.

The panels are a mess to navigate too. Half the time I have to squeeze a column just to actually see the Add button.

Someone in CompSci/UI/UX etc plz build a better one as a final project or something. I'll help you pitch it to the school lmao. Happy registration 🫩.

In reference to his recent statement on AI. Noticed people trying to discredit him as an artist to weaken his argument, saying things like og Star Wars had no story.

>Artificial intelligence means it’s much easier for us to make movies. It’s very much like sitting here saying, ‘Well, I believe the horse and the buggy is really where it’s at. These cars, they break down, they need gas, there’s all kinds of problems with them, and pretty soon they’ll be making them into tanks, and then they’ll be killing people. It’s terrible.'”

>“There’s nothing you can do about it…That’s progress; it’s the future…If you want AI that tells you when something is fake and where it came from, AI can do that. Humans can’t; we’re not that smart. The whole idea is you’re a human being, you’re responsible for what you say and what you do, and if you’re doing something that’s illegal, you should be punished for that. Whatever you do, you should be recognized. It’s just like real life,”

Typing "u/(anyone) + "reddit" , and any other combination of word youre looking for like "profile overview" , "recent comments" , "affiliations" , etc. will give you quotes, links, and descriptions of whoever you've searched.

It works on users with their profiles hidden, because their posts and comments still exist on the rest of the site.

Try it out on yourself and see what comes up. Ask it to describe you based on your post and comment history. It provides an interesting objective perspective. It's like reddit wrapped, but it works better imo.

Of course Google and other AI have make mistakes. But changing the phrasing slightly and asking follow-up questions in AI Mode can improve results.

Other than self reflection, it's good for being nosey I guess? I just realized it worked awhile ago and wanted to tell somebody, but worried about the ethics of sharing this. Maybe it's obvious though? Either way, irrelevant in this sub.

Lmk what you think

Recently online, I'm constantly seeing art being wrongly accused of being AI.

At the same time, I get random autonomous robotics vids on my feed, being wrongfully accusing them of being remote-operated.

So people think only robots can make art, and only humans can be robots? This seems like part of a bigger societal issue related to trust or critical thinking, idk. Just seemed funny

I asked 3 different repair places to for a zflip 6 repair in Toronto. 1 Samsung certified repair shop, 1 actual Samsung repair centre, and the third party shop I bought the phone used from on sale abt 8 months ago.

I walked into the third party shop and the first thing he said was "those phones are garbage. You can buy a new one for the cost". He didnt remember me or selling it to me lmao. He called someone in a different language to get me quote of 495 for the parts.

The Samsung certified shop gave me the same advice, but more politely. They had a spreadsheet of prices and quoted 540 for the part. This is Canadian dollars.

The official Samsung repair centre was just a call to their store, same reaction. They couldn't give me a quote and told me to call some other company that supplies them for my area to get it.

The issue is my digitizer, they basically have to replace 90% of the phone so it would feel like new, but they'd also wipe the data. I can't access settings from the coverscreen to enable maintenance mode.

I dont have warranty on it so I'd just have to pay for it, which is acceptable, except I might as well get a new phone for the cost and trouble, because there's a chance it could happen again. I've had so many issues with lost packages in the past, so I'd like avoiding that too, let alone the time it takes vs buying a new phone.

I love the erganomics, creativity, and customization of the my flip but there's so many different phones out now. Reliability is important. I hate the waste of people, including myself, getting new devices every year. I thought I found my lifer phone with the zflip line, but the durability and overall value just isnt there yet for me.

Other phones:

I'm considering a Nothing or CMF. I dont know about reliability but I'm intrigued by their designs/fatures and I can get one for around the same price as the repair. I love the circle to search on android, but they'd seem to have a similar button for quick on screen tasks.

Motorola, pixels, iphones, are No-gos for various reasons. Same with fair phone and Chinese brands I'd probably have poor customer support even if I could get one in Canada.

I might just give up and get some random Samsung A series. The modern phone market seems so creatively dead and I'm worried it's just easier to except the slab life.

I expect flips/folds to become more common and popular over time, with repairs for them becoming cheaper and accesible too. But that's not the present day. What do yall think?