MWMaggie Wanginanypcba.hashnode.dev·6d ago · 9 min readThe Journey of a PCB: What Happens Between "Send" and "Deliver"You finish designing a PCB, click "Send," and ship the Gerber files off to the factory. Then you wait. A week later, a package arrives with your boards. They look exactly as you designed them. You thi00
MWMaggie Wanginanypcba.hashnode.dev·Jul 24 · 5 min readWhy Your Hardware Startup Shouldn't Start with the Biggest PCBA FactoryThere's a moment in every hardware startup's journey where the founder makes a decision that seems obvious but often backfires. It usually sounds like this: "We want to work with the biggest, most est00
MWMaggie Wanginanypcba.hashnode.dev·Jul 21 · 4 min readAI Is Eating the World, But Who's Building the Boards That Feed It?We're in the middle of an AI hardware gold rush. Nvidia can't make GPUs fast enough. Every startup with a .ai domain is raising millions. Governments are throwing subsidies at semiconductor fabs like 00
MWMaggie Wanginanypcba.hashnode.dev·Jul 17 · 4 min readGreat PCB Design Isn‘t Just Routing — It‘s Building a ProductIf you've done hardware development, you've probably experienced this: the board works, the functionality is there, but production yield is low, assembly is difficult, and rework rates are high. You t00
MWMaggie Wanginanypcba.hashnode.dev·Jul 14 · 6 min readHow Does a Circuit Board Go from a Design File to the Heart of an Electronic Device? — The Complete PCB Manufacturing Process ExplainedYou've designed a PCB and sent it to a factory. Then what? How does your design file actually become the working board you hold in your hands? I've asked this question to many hardware engineers. Few 00
