Hackvana Jun 2026

You want 3 boards? Hackvana would build you 3 boards. You want 1,000? They'd scale. This "lottery ticket" assembly model allowed kickstarter campaigns to validate prototypes without buying 100 units from a giant fab.

If a component didn't come on a standard tape-and-reel, JLCPCB would reject your BOM. Hackvana laughed at tape-and-reel. Need a specific tactile switch from Alps? A non-standard inductor? A salvaged connector? Hackvana’s procurement team in Shenzhen—a city where you can buy any electronic component within a 2km radius—would literally walk to Huaqiangbei market to buy your weird parts off the shelf. hackvana

: To provide high-quality, affordable PCBs to hobbyists who found large-scale industrial fabs too intimidating or expensive. You want 3 boards

: The #hackvana IRC channel was kept open as a community space, though many FOSS projects eventually migrated to networks like Libera Chat after the 2021 Freenode takeover. Modern Alternatives They'd scale

In one instance, a user had a catastrophic failure with another fab that "oversized" their drill hits, ruining the board