Foreign media reported that Facebook has built a new 22,000-square-foot hardware lab at its headquarters in Monroe Park, California. It was officially established in July this year and is called Area 404. Facebook's infrastructure team, Oculus team, and Connectivity team all develop data center equipment, virtual reality devices, drones, and more. Not long ago, Facebook showed off this new hardware lab.
At present, major companies in Silicon Valley are focused on building large research laboratories. Google has created Google X Labs; Microsoft has set up Special Projects; and Airbnb recently established Samara Innovation Laboratory. And Facebook's Area 404 is a laboratory equipped with advanced testing equipment and heavy machinery, Facebook named the 404 area because they want the lab engineers were able to avoid mistakes.
It is reported that Facebook's development plans in the next 10 years include: drones, satellites, lasers, telecommunications infrastructure, VR / A helmets and other products, these hardware products will be completed in the 404 area.
Insiders at Facebook stated that in the past they had outsourced their hardware testing projects to external laboratories, which took several weeks, and now they have their own laboratories, which only takes a few days to complete.
The laboratory floor is about 0.9 meters thick and is made of reinforced concrete with more than 100 columns supporting. Facebook employees mentioned that the construction of such a solid floor is due to the placement of heavy-weight equipment such as nine-axis turning and milling machines. The 9-axis turning and milling machine is used to make complex components and weighs 27 tons.
Jay Parek, vice president of engineering at Facebook, explained the two reasons for building the 404 hardware lab: The first is to create a hardware large enough to hold the entire company and let them collaborate in the same place. Products, solve problems. Second, it is intended to establish the most advanced hardware laboratory in the United States, which will contain prototypes of all equipment and products that failed early tests.
An executive from Facebook added: “This place is not only for research and development of new products, but also for the failure in the process.†If a motherboard model developed in the 404 area laboratory is self-igniting, CT scanners and electron microscopes It can help engineers check in real time what went wrong, instead of sending it to an external inspection agency to find the source of the problem.
The laboratory consists of two parts: an electrical engineering laboratory and a prototype manufacturing shop. Electrical engineering labs are primarily used for product testing and debugging, while prototyping workshops provide a wide variety of tools so that the development team can rapidly iterate the hardware. In the prototype manufacturing plant, there are water-jet cutting machines, five-axis milling machines and other machines.
Waterjet cutters can spray 60,000 PSI (pounds per square inch) of water. The pressure generated by the water column can cut steel, glass, metal and other objects without pressure.
The following picture shows the five-axis milling machine, the most complicated instrument in the entire 404-area laboratory. It can tilt and rotate experimental samples to make a very accurate product model.
The business card design in the 404 zone is also very personal and is expected to appear on Facebook's many hardware products in the future.
The most interesting thing is that Facebook said that due to various factors, there are many places in the lab that even Zuckerberg is restricted to enter.
Recently, we are familiar with the project will be deployed in the 404 area, including the Oculus helmet, panoramic camera Surround 360 and other virtual reality hardware projects and the "Yahoo" solar drone. Also accumulating in this laboratory is the confidential project Building 8 led by Regina Dugan.
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