• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    This one?

    Here is a picture of the board for a relatively innocuous device, a tamogotchi.

    https://proxy.imagearchive.com/53b/53be32971e72c1908b4a4f775b34dd41.jpg

    How many components in that one picture have a serial number, batch number, or marking that can be used to identify the component? I counted 10 at a cursory glance.

    Electronics devices aren’t a monolith with a single serial number. Many components have markings on them to track it for QA and recalls.