In the past week, a few forum and Reddit threads have popped up, with people stating that JLCPCB has emailed them with a notice, saying their accounts are set up for terminations after an assessmen…
Annoyingly, it gets through the entire article pretty much without explaining what the hell JLCPCB is, assuming that you must know what they are. It appears to be a Chinese PCB (printed circuit board) manufacturer, where you can send them a schematic and they will make a PCB of whatever you desire. It appears that they are now limiting who they take orders from, and it seems likely that other Chinese PCB manufacturers will take the same step in the future.
Overall I enjoy reading Hackaday’s articles, But this was too much “inside baseball” since they didn’t bother explaining what JLCPCB was.
Thanks for saying so, because honestly I would have assumed anyone reading hackaday would know who/what they were. Like the author I was clearly wrong.
Annoyingly, it gets through the entire article pretty much without explaining what the hell JLCPCB is, assuming that you must know what they are. It appears to be a Chinese PCB (printed circuit board) manufacturer, where you can send them a schematic and they will make a PCB of whatever you desire. It appears that they are now limiting who they take orders from, and it seems likely that other Chinese PCB manufacturers will take the same step in the future.
Overall I enjoy reading Hackaday’s articles, But this was too much “inside baseball” since they didn’t bother explaining what JLCPCB was.
Thanks for saying so, because honestly I would have assumed anyone reading hackaday would know who/what they were. Like the author I was clearly wrong.
I chose to read it as JCLDS-PCB, which didn’t help.
That’s some impressive dyslexia/letter addition you got there!
I simply chose to read it as that, as my head was not up for dealing with the letter soup that was the name.
In no, every article should explain every word! Too hard to google!
I mean, basic writing classes tell you to say the entire acronym the first time you use it. But I guess we don’t do education anymore 🤷
Not when the target is expected to know that. Spelling it out is for when the reader might not know.
Ok, they can provide a MOP where they define the audience if they want. /s
Tbf the company doesn’t seem to spell out jialichuang or printed circuit board on their web site either, so maybe the author didn’t know.