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353 points iraton | 1 comments | 09 Jul 25 17:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.221s | source
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the__alchemist ◴[09 Jul 25 21:41 UTC] No.44514996[source]▶
What is going on with the PCB? It looks like the soldered several dev boards to a big PCB. I can't think of a good reason to do this.
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1. tgsovlerkhgsel ◴[10 Jul 25 00:00 UTC] No.44515928[source]▶
A good reason to do it (IMO, as someone who has done it) that it's a lot faster, easier, and often cheaper than designing a fully custom board.

Not only would designing a fully custom board require a lot of error-prone effort, getting a lot of components in tiny quantities can be prohibitively expensive.

Good engineering includes optimizing for cost (monetary and non-monetary), and I'd argue that for many hobbyist one-off projects that won't be manufactured at scale, dev-boards-on-PCB is good engineering.