How do we keep making devices smaller?
Everyone knows that in today's mobile device-wearing, hand-held device-carrying world, the smaller the better. It can be challenging to keep miniaturizing items such as phones, fitness trackers, tablets and more. And take popular devices out of the picture and focus on on-body devices for military use and you also require rugged designs that can withstand extreme temperatures, vibrations and dust, dirt and water.
How is this accomplished? With extremely low-profile mezzanine connectors for one. In our latest Connector Tips post, David Brearley discusses a few of these compact designs that are solving the problems of miniaturization.
Senior Manager of Strategic Communications at the Colorectal Cancer Alliance
8 年We could also employ the miniaturizing laser from Honey I Shrunk The Kids.
Patent Agent at Vytis, Ltd
8 年It's another lap around the unending circle of smaller machines making smaller parts for measuring devices, which in turn measure smaller dimensions more accurately... The loop was initially closed when it was noticed that with a lathe, a mill, and a shaper (aka profile machine - generally obsolete nowadays,) any broken part of one machine could be made by the other two. If each replacement is manufactured to tighter tolerances, eventually all three machines will have tighter tolerance capabilities in manufacturing. They can also make miniaturized versions of themselves and smaller-scale tool and die work, too. It is an exciting time to be in industry in an age when traditional cutting machines are giving way to EDM, micro, and nano-machining technologies in addition to additive processes such as polyjet and DMLS. We can build almost anything we can imagine!