The Making of...

by Fred Muller February 28, 2009 - 05:50

As everyone should know by now, the Gdium has been available for a few days in Belgium, and since early 2009 through the OLPH program (a developer-only program). Following numerous requests to see how we were making the Gdium we're more than happy to present the first process in the manufacturing line (once all the parts have been produced and received): the SMT process. SMT stands for Surface-Mount Technology and consists of inserting all the components directly on the surface of the Printed Circuit Board (PCB).

Components are "attached" to the machine in rolls, hot silver is poured onto the PCB, the machine automatically places all the components on the PCB and gets inserted and fixed this way. The same process is reiterated until one side is finished, and then again for the other side on a different line. There is an excellent description of the process here on Wikipedia if you want to know more. Should you have questions or want to discover a specific part of any process please do not hesitate to ask us through the comment section here.

Here some wikipedia links to

Here some wikipedia links to the technology terms, some maybe don't know:

PCB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printed_circuit_board

(SMT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-mount_technology)

I got to this video - which shows the gdium running mandrive at some kind of con - using the youtube-link at the end of the video ;-)

Edit: Oh and there is a GDIUM user in youtube!!!!

by R S March 02, 2009 - 14:30

Your second wikipedia link is

Your second wikipedia link is the same as in the article... (same content, different URL)

by Fred Muller March 01, 2009 - 10:31

Oops, I directly pasted them

Oops, I directly pasted them from my bookmarks, as I wanted to make it easiser for follow-ups. ;) - Processed the link after 2nd readthrough. The youtube-links are found in other gdium-product-blog-posts, too.

by R S March 02, 2009 - 14:32

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