[TriEmbed] Advice Needed

[Shane Trent]

Pete is right on target about oshpark.com.  You do not even need to mess
with gerber files, layers or drill files.  You just send them your eagle
file and the pretty boards show up in your mail box in two weeks give or
take.  It makes it cheap enough to look up a project someone else has
posted and order some boards just to give it a try.  And again, these are
not proto-board quality pcb's.  These are full solder-mask and silkscreen
on both sides.

Most recently I ordered a set of the ATtiny84 based wireless sensor nodes
posted on the site below.  At oshpark.com it cost me $7.40 for a set of 3,
shipped!  Ordered Aug 27th, shipped Sept 10th. Speed is the only reason to
hand-wire or order quick-turn, no mask, no silk boards today.

http://nathan.chantrell.net/tinytx-wireless-sensor/

-Shane


On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Pete Soper <pete at soper.us> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> Times have changed and Advanced Circuits is effectively dead in the
> water wrt prototyping at the hobby level.
>
> If I took your .brd file and visited http://oshpark.com, clicked on "get
> started", and followed the instructions to upload it, I could be holding
> three copies of this board in my hand for $15 about 10-12 days after I
> hit "submit." These boards would be *top quality*, with gold enig
> finish, design rules down to 6 mils, and made in the USA.
> For six boards, just click on two sets and send them $30.
>
> -Pete
>
> On 10/4/2013 10:27 AM, Paul Hinson wrote:
> > For custom prototype boards, I use this company:
> >
> > http://www.4pcb.com/
> > Free schematic capture and layout tool (or use Eagle) and reasonably
> priced
> > low volume boards. I ordered 5 copies of a 2-layer silkscreened 1"x3"
> > pcb for ~$120, received within 2weeks. It is a low-risk way of quickly
> > testing a design (once you've proved your concept)and learning pcb
> layout....not for low-cost high-volume though.
> >
> >
> >
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