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p1: Jam stands with the deconstructed part in front of a city skyline. The outer shell of the part is indicated.
Jam: "We came to DongGuan, just North of Shenzhen, to see how a prototype enclosure might get made for the PCB."
p2: A factory floor showing workers with large CNC machines.
The most common type of prototype manufacturing is called "CNC": Computer Numerically Controlled machining.
A large milling machine is programmed with a 3D design that you provide, and cuts them out of a block of material one at a time. It is very exact, but slow and expensive.
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