24 Apr
2010
24 Apr
'10
8:04 a.m.
In the latest IEEE Spectrum magazine there is an article on page 24,
'Hands On - Why stop at breadboarding when custom PCBs are easy to
design and cheap to get made?', by James Turner.
Summary of this: He used Eagle to design/layout the board (which
seemed to be free), you have to do the trace routing manually, and
your pcb is 'batched' with others to keep the price way down.
At 02:52 PM 4/23/2010, you wrote:
On 4/22/10, Andrew Lynch <lynchaj at yahoo.com>
wrote:
Hi! It pains me to ask this, what vendors are
hobbyists using
for low cost,
low quantity prototype PCBs?
I had a run recently done by Gold Phoenix
(http://www.goldphoenixpcb.biz/) - 2 layer board, approx 3"x3.5", 100%
through-hole design, no fancy features (it was an 80C52 design that is
now sporting an ATmega8515). I sent them Gerber files from EagleCAD
and they panellized for free - their work size is 155 sq in, so I got
16 boards for $99. For the application at hand, it was a good deal
and I was happy with the results.
Gold Phoenix was recommended to me by the Makerbot guys. I've done
one run and was entirely satisfied. We will probably do a "Rev 2"
through them as well.
-ethan