Gallery: Facebook Explores New Hardware Inside 'Area 404'
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The water jet cutter inside Facebook's new hardware lab, Area 404.
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An engineer uses Facebook's nine-axis mill-turn lathe, which helps build tiny hardware parts, like those inside the communication lasers the company is building for Internet drones.
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A five-axis milling machine used to build larger parts for devices like Facebook's Terragraph wireless antenna.
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In addition to several computer-driven prototyping machines, Area 404 includes several machines for manually building prototypes.
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An engineer works inside the manual machines lab.
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Facebook's electron microscope, used to analyze prototypes that fail.
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Area 404 also includes about 50 work benches for the company's hardware engineers.
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