26 Apr
2010
26 Apr
'10
10:25 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.
I can think of one very good reason : If you're the sort of mortal whose
designed don't always work first time, or if you prefer to desgin a bit,
get that working, add on the next bit, and so on, then it's a lot easier
to do tha, make changes, modify things on prototyping board than on a PCB.
And I wondeer... For a one-off project how does the time taken to lay out
the PCB check it, etc compare to thr time taken to wire it up by hand on
a prototyping board.
There is also the issue that after e-mailing in the gerber files, you
still have to wait a couple of days for the PCBs to come, Personally I
like to be able to check my design while it's still very fresh in my
mind.
-tony